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Proof He Is Not Martin Bormann (N.Z. Press Atsoctattow-CopvrioMi BUENOS AIRES, October 2. The one-armed'textile worker, Walter Flegel, has been Cleared of suspicion that he was Hitler’s hunted deputy, Martin Bormann Flegel was detained after a newspaper correspondent reported he believed him to be Bormann. However, proof has been obtained that Flegel was In Argentina at a time when Bormann was known to be alive in Germany, said the Minister of the Interior (Mr A. Vltolo). Flegel has not yet been released. It appears he entered Argentina, illegally, and there Is suspicion that Flegel is not his real name. Bormann’s fingerprints are being sent from Germany for comparison with Flegel’s. > tn London, a “Daily Sketch” reporter claimed that Israeli secret agents knew that Bormann had died of cancer at Bariloche. in Argentina, and was buried in a lonely, rocky graveyard six miles outside the town. The reporter, Comer Clarke, said he obtained his information during two years* research for a book on Adolf Eichmann, who was recently captured by Israeli agents. He claimed that Bormann obtained an Argentina passport in 1948 in the name of Jose
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29326, 4 October 1960, Page 23
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