Writing by Dr. Dannielle Blumenthal

Official history: Josef Mengele escaped to South America in 1949, lived under false names in Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil, and drowned off Bertioga beach on 7 February 1979. His remains were exhumed in 1985 and identified by international forensic teams; DNA testing in 1992 closed the case.

A persistent counter-claim, however, has circulated for more than 30 years: Mengele was extracted by the same U.S. intelligence apparatus that ran Operation Paperclip, given the cover name “Dr. Green” (or similar), and continued his trauma-based experiments on American children inside CIA mind-control programs.

1. Proven Precedent: The U.S. Routinely Imported and Protected Nazi War Criminals

• Operation Paperclip (1945–1959) brought over 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and intelligence officers to the United States — many with documented SS membership and direct responsibility for slave-labor deaths.
• Allen Dulles personally overruled President Truman’s 1946 directive banning “ardent Nazis” and ordered records sanitized so that war criminals could receive U.S. citizenship.
• The CIA’s MK-Ultra program (1953–1973) actively sought Nazi expertise in trauma, hypnosis, and dissociative conditioning. Declassified files confirm the Agency hired former Dachau and Auschwitz physicians (Kurt Blome, Walter Schreiber, Kurt Plötner, etc.) and shielded them from prosecution.

2. The United States Tracked Mengele — and Deliberately Let Him Go

• By 1957–1958 the CIA and U.S. Army CIC knew Mengele’s exact address in Buenos Aires (declassified cables, Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act).
• After Israel seized Adolf Eichmann in 1960, extraditing Mengele would have been simple, yet Washington took no action.
• Simon Wiesenthal and Mossad officers repeatedly stated that U.S. intelligence warned Mengele whenever Israeli teams got close.

3. Four Independent Adult Witnesses Identify Mengele Inside U.S. Facilities

• Frida Halliday
• “Sara in Minnesota”
• Tara Yvette Potter
• Cheryl Hersha Beck says he forced her to call him “Väterchen” (German: “little father”).

4. Photographic Claim from Otto Skorzeny’s Family

Author Erik Orion dated Otto Skorzeny’s daughter in the late 1990s. On his deathbed in 1999 the former SS commando (himself a postwar CIA asset) allegedly gave Orion private photographs showing Josef Mengele living in the United States under the alias “Dr. Steven Rabel” into the 1980s.

5. The Final Piece: Dulles’s Desperate Race for Nazi Talent to “Fight Communism”

By late 1945 Allen Dulles and the OSS/CIA were in open competition with the Soviets for every usable German specialist — rocket engineers, chemists, intelligence officers, and medical researchers. The guiding principle was simple: anti-communism trumped every war-crime file.
Dulles personally funded and expanded Reinhard Gehlen’s entire Eastern-Front intelligence network (thousands of ex-SS and SD officers) and installed it as the core of U.S. intelligence against the USSR. The Gehlen Organization was placed on the CIA payroll in 1949 and became the foundation of West Germany’s BND in 1956 — all while many of its members remained wanted for mass murder.

When the same agency that gave Wernher von Braun the keys to NASA and turned Hitler’s top spymaster into America’s top spymaster declares that “fighting communism” outweighs any atrocity, the idea that it would quietly extract and employ the Reich’s most notorious trauma expert — Josef Mengele — is no longer far-fetched.

It remains unproven.
But given the documented pattern, the proven willingness to hire SS doctors, the proven protection of tracked war criminals, and the proven urgency to win the “race for Nazi talent,” the repeated, mutually corroborating survivor testimonies cannot be dismissed as mere coincidence. The structural conditions for a protected postwar career as “Dr. Green” were not just present — they were policy.

Written with the help of Grok AI.