In recent times declassified CIA documents interesting and sometimes even sensational things can be found. Among them were two reports from the CIA residency in Caracas and Maracaibo (Venezuela) that one of their agents was in contact with a Robert Citroen, who claimed to have met Adolf Hitler in Colombia. He says he did not die, but together with the Nazis who remained loyal to him, he settled in the town of Tunja.

As proof, Citroen showed a photograph of Hitler, and a copy was placed on the file. The CIA base in Maracaibo considered it a fabrication that was not even worth the message "higher". Citroen's claims and the truth are too naive, and the photo he presents is of quite dubious quality. The editors list translations as well as original business records. Thanks to them, it is possible to make sure that declassified documents do not contain any sensation.

Secretly:

From the Deputy Chief of Station in Caracas

1. 29. September 1955 Cimelody-3 (agent's code name, note diletant.media) reported the following: neither Cimelody-3 nor our stations are able to evaluate the information; is passed on as a possible interest.
2. On September 29, 1955, Cimelody-3 was contacted by a trusted friend who served under his command in Europe and now lives in Maracaibo. Cimelody-3 decided not to reveal his identity.
3. A well-known Cimelody-3 announced that at the end of September 1955, Phillip Citroen, a former SS officer, had confidentially informed him that Adolf Hitler was still alive. He claimed to have been in contact with him approximately once a month in Colombia when he traveled from Maracaibo as an employee of KNSM (RoyalDutch) Shipping Co. in Maracaibo. Citroen told him about the photo he had recently captured with Hitler, but he didn't show it. He added that Hitler had left Colombia and went to Argentina in about January 1955. Citroen explained that ten years had passed since the end of the war, and therefore the Allies could no longer prosecute Hitler as a war criminal.
4. On September 28, 1955, the famous Cimelody-3 had difficulty obtaining the photograph that Citroen had told him about. On September 29, 1955, the photograph was shown to Cimelody-3 himself to confirm the truth of this fantastic history. It is evident that Cimelody-3 was not able to comment on this. However, he had the photo with him long enough for the CIA to take the necessary steps. Photocopies were made and then sent. The original was returned to the owner the next day. Apparently the man on the left is Citroen, the man on the right is the one whom Citroen calls Hitler. On the reverse is written: "Adolf Schüttelmayer, Tunga, Colombia, 1954."

CIA base commander in Maracaibo

1. As for the photo sent by the CIA in Caracas, the report assumes that Adolf Hitler is still alive. The base documents contain similar information obtained from the same source residing in Maracaibo.
2. A message that does not contain a date. This was probably written around mid-February 1954, indicating that Phillip Citroen, a former co-owner of the Maracaibo Times, told a former base agent that while working for a railway company in Colombia, he had met a man who closely resembled Adolf. Hitler and who admitted that Adolf was Hitler. Citroen claimed to have met the man at a place called Residencias Coloniales in Tunja (Boyacá Department), Colombia. According to a source, a large number of former Nazis lived in this city. Based on Citroen's claim, the Germans of Tunja remained faithful to this supposed Hitler and that idolatry, proper to the Nazi past, addressed him as a leader and saluted him as well as the Nazis.
3. Citroen also showed the agent a photograph taken in Colombia, on which he stands together with the supposed Hitler. This photo was borrowed for several hours to make a copy. Unfortunately, the negatives were too poor. The original was returned to the owner and it was very difficult to get it back. Accordingly, as in connection with the apparent fantasy of the report, this information was not sent to us at the time we obtained it.
4. Phillip Citroen lives in Maracaibo with his brother François, according to our reports he was hired by Dutchsteamship. François previously worked for the Maracaibo Herald newspaper and for the past two years has been a partner of his brother Phillip and Alexander van Dobben, the Dutch consul in Maracaibo, in the company that publishes the English-language newspaper the Maracaibo Times. We currently have no information available about Phillip or François Citroen.