La Razon, Buenos Aires’ principal newspaper, has carried a front page report that Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi who directed the killing of 6,000,000 European Jews, was captured by Israel agents in Argentina.
The Israel Embassy here firmly declined to comment on the report. Abba Eban, Israel. Minister without Portfolio, who is here on an official visit, also refused to comment during a press conference.
La Razon asserted that Eichmann was captured in Vicente Lopez, a suburb of Buenos Aires, and that he was doped by the Israel agents on May 11 and held in a secret place until May 21 when he was put on a private plane and flown to Israel. He lived in Argentina under the name of Ricardo Clemens, the paper said.
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