Dr. Nahum Goldmann revealed here today that, several years ago, he had asked American intelligence officers to find Adolf Eichmann, but that the Americans could not locate the Nazi war criminal.
The Jewish leader, arriving here from Paris, was asked about reports in the Israeli press to the effect that he had been “aware of Eichmann’s whereabouts” but had only turned over the information to American authorities. The reports were printed insome Israeli newspapers in the course of the current political campaign under way there, prior to Israel’s forthcoming general elections.
As far as the newspaper reports were concerned, Dr. Goldmann said, they were “completely untrue.” Then he added: “Several years ago, I received aletter from Austria, informing me that the writer had reason to believe that Eichmann was somewhere in South America. The writer asked me to ask the American intelligence service to investigate and, possibly, to find Eichmann. I did so, and was informed later by the American authorities that they could find no trace of Eichmann.”
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