A recently declassified CIA intelligence report suggests that Adolf Hitler lived in Maracaibo, contradicting official accounts of his death at the end of World War II. The report claims that by October 1955, the Nazi leader was hiding in the Zulia capital, from which he allegedly traveled to Colombia and then to Buenos Aires.
The CIA’s roadmap and record, dated October 3, 1955, marked as Confidential, presents information from a source called CIMELODY-3, who asserts that Adolf Hitler was still alive at the time.
The document states that a trusted friend of CIMELODY-3, identified as a former German soldier, claimed to have maintained monthly contact with Hitler in Colombia until early 1955, when he supposedly moved to Argentina.
Hitler Lived in Maracaibo
CIA report dated October 3, 1955.
CIMELODY-3 was contacted by a trusted friend who served under his command in Europe and lived in Maracaibo at the time of the report. “CIMELODY-3 was contacted on September 29, 2019, by a trustworthy friend who served under him in Europe and who currently resides in Maracaibo. CIMELODY-3 preferred not to reveal the identity of his friend.”
CIMELODY-3 did not reveal the identity of his friend, and the Caracas station emphasized that neither he—meaning CIMELODY-3—nor the station could assess the truthfulness of the information but relayed it for its potential interest.
“CITROEN claimed to have contacted Hitler approximately once a month in Colombia during his trip from Maracaibo to that country as an employee of KNSM (Royal Dutch) Shipping Co. in Maracaibo,” the report states.
CIMELODY-3’s friend claimed that a certain CITROEN, described as another former SS soldier, confided to him in late September 1955 that Adolf Hitler was still alive.
According to the account, Adolf Hitler would have left Colombia in January 1955 to head to Argentina. “He also stated that Hitler left Colombia for Argentina in January 1955. CITROEN expressed that, given that ten years had passed since the end of World War II, the Allies could no longer prosecute Hitler as a war criminal,” the document reads.
The Photo of Hitler in Colombia
The report presents as evidence a photocopy of a photograph that supposedly shows Adolf Hitler, identified in the image as “Adolf HRITIELMAYOR,” in Tunja, Colombia, in 1954.
The alleged Führer of Germany from 1934 to 1945 appears alongside another individual, presumably the contact named CITROEN. On September 28, 1955, CIMELODY-3’s friend would have discreetly obtained the photo referred to by CITROEN.
CIMELODY-3 reportedly had the photo long enough for the CIA station to make photocopies of it.
The photograph is described: “The person on the left is allegedly CITROEN, and the person on the right is undoubtedly the person CITROEN claims is HITLER.” The original photo was to be returned to its owner the next day.
The CIA cannot verify the information but forwards the document for its possible interest to several offices, including Buenos Aires and Bogotá. “Neither CIMELODY-3 nor this Station are in a position to provide an intelligent assessment of the information, and it is transmitted as a matter of potential interest.”
Javier Milei Declassifies Information on Nazi Criminals
On May 3, 2025, it was revealed that the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, released declassified documents regarding Nazi criminals who fled to that country after World War II.
In this way, Milei fulfilled his promise to disclose the contents of files indicating that Argentina sheltered Josef Mengele, known as the “monster doctor” and the “Angel of Death,” as well as Adolf Eichmann, regarded as the “architect of the Holocaust,” among other Nazi criminals.
The General Archive of the Nation (AGN) now holds 1,850 declassified documents that even include records of banking operations, as well as secret intelligence files and other reports that the Argentine Ministry of Defense had classified as confidential.
These documents are now public per President Javier Milei’s order, in response to a request from U.S. Republican Senator Steve Daines and representatives from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which investigates the links between Credit Suisse and Nazism.
Mengele committed heinous experiments on prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was not extradited to Germany because Argentine authorities refused to do so citing a technicality. Fleeing Argentina, Mengele went to Paraguay and later Brazil, where he died in 1979 under a false identity.
On the other hand, Adolf Eichmann lived with his family without issues until he was captured by Israeli Mossad agents in 1960 and later executed in 1962 after being tried.