{"id":24511,"date":"2025-05-09T16:36:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T16:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/infamous-nazi-war-criminal-helped-set-up-top-drug-cartel-and-worked-with-pablo-escobar-report-says\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T16:36:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T16:36:02","slug":"infamous-nazi-war-criminal-helped-set-up-top-drug-cartel-and-worked-with-pablo-escobar-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/infamous-nazi-war-criminal-helped-set-up-top-drug-cartel-and-worked-with-pablo-escobar-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Infamous Nazi war criminal helped set up top drug cartel and worked with Pablo Escobar, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was deeply involved in setting up one of South America&#8217;s most important drug cartels, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/panorama\/justiz\/klaus-barbie-wie-der-nazi-schlaechter-zum-koks-kartell-in-bolivien-gelangte-a-9092099d-59e1-4a62-afb5-ae31012adfcc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">report<\/a> Friday by German news weekly Der Spiegel.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed the &#8220;Butcher of Lyon&#8221; for his wartime torture of prisoners, the former Gestapo chief in the occupied French city fled to South America after the end of World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Barbie was eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p01358sn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">arrested<\/a> after being tracked down by France&#8217;s most famous Nazi-hunting couple, Serge Klarsfeld and his wife Beate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-45796063\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the BBC reported<\/a>. He was extradited from Bolivia to France in 1983 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987 on charges of crimes against humanity. <\/p>\n<p>Barbie died in prison in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>According to Der Spiegel, Barbie &#8212; living under the alias Klaus Altmann &#8212; became a security adviser to drug baron Roberto Suarez after the two men met in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Suarez&#8217;s son Gary told the magazine that Barbie was &#8220;an important person to my father.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He knew something about security, military strategy and secret service work,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/09\/7c4fd6f6-3f2a-4789-8dd7-e98cd4a773de\/thumbnail\/620x453\/f8bd2cccc324c77b647947d0b8dffd9f\/gettyimages-843594384.jpg?v=e61856d8e666e7ed5709adc37bb2d465#\" alt=\"Klaus 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for dictator Luis Garcia Meza.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Suarez told Der Spiegel that &#8220;Barbie had been deeply involved in the military regimes going back decades.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;Bridegrooms of Death&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Barbie had helped &#8220;organize the militias that would overthrow the government&#8221; in the run-up to the violent 1980 coup that brought Garcia Meza to power.<\/p>\n<p>Among them was a group of neo-Nazi mercenaries called the &#8220;Bridegrooms of Death&#8221; who had a swastika-clad headquarters called Club Bavaria in the city of Santa Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>After the coup they were deployed to help both crush political opposition and Suarez&#8217;s rivals in cocaine production.<\/p>\n<p>A <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cia-opens-more-nazi-files\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">CIA dispatch<\/a><\/span> from May 1974 seen by Der Spiegel reveals that the agency&#8217;s officers already suspected Barbie of involvement in the drug trade, the magazine said.<\/p>\n<p>Roberto Suarez&#8217;s son-in-law Gerardo Caballero told Der Spiegel that &#8220;Barbie helped us a lot, including in working together with Pablo Escobar,&#8221; the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/carlos-lehder-freed-medillin-cartel-boss-released-colombia-after-arrest\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Colombian drug kingpin<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Barbie was recruited as an anti-communist agent by American Secret Services after the war, and the United States later apologized to France for helping Barbie evade justice.<\/p>\n<p>Der Spiegel has previously reported that Barbie was also active as a secret agent for West German intelligence in Bolivia.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine said he was recruited in late 1965 in the Bolivian capital La Paz and given the code name &#8220;Adler&#8221; (&#8220;Eagle&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Jacques Verg\u00e9s, a French lawyer who represented Barbie, <span class=\"link\"><a 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