A highly reliable source today described Patricia Kelly as the former head of a Nazi movement in Argentina but who for the past 10 or so years “abandoned completely his old anti-Jewish activities and started to seek friendship and support of the Jews.” Kelly was the editor of the Buenos Aires magazine, “Marchar” (To March), who claimed to have interviewed Ashraf Ghorbal, the Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S. The interview was repudiated by Ghorbal, Kelly is reported to have been arrested recently.
The source, describing Kelly, said: “I want to stress that as a political adventurer, Patricio Kelly may be considered an old-timer. Twenty years ago he was the head of a Nazi movement in Argentina. At that time ho used to define himself as a Peronist and he was quite tolerated by the government authorities of that epoch.
“When the Peronist regime fell in September 1955, Kelly was detained and sent to a jail in the south, from which, disguised as a woman, he escaped to Chile together with another inmate of the Jail, the former chairman of the Chamber of Deputies, Dr. Hector Campora, who became President of the Republic in 1973 and is now a political refugee in Mexico.
“The former Argentine Nazi (Kelly), after his return to Argentina, thanks to an amnesty decreed during the Presidency of Dr. Arturo Frondizt (in the late 1950s) abandoned completely his anti-Jewish activities and started to seek the friendship and support of the Jews.”
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