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DATE: TUESDAY, December 14, 1993                   TAG: 9312140162
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: The New York Times
DATELINE: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA                                LENGTH: Short

ARGENTINE FILES REVEAL NAZI SUSPECTS

Two years after President Carlos Saul Menem announced he would open Argentina's "Nazi files," investigators here say they have found more than a thousand names of suspected Nazi war criminals and collaborators who fled to this country after World War II - a number that is many times more than previously documented.

And the investigators say the hundreds of thousands of pages of documents they have studied in the last eight months show not only the government's policy of welcoming Nazi war criminals, but also its efforts to impede the search for and prosecution of them by other governments.

Of the more than 1,000 names of suspected war criminals that researchers have compiled, they have prepared dossiers on 230 of them to be sent to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust research center and museum in Jerusalem, for further study on what role they might have played in the the war.

by CNB