How the CIA 'found' Hitler alive in Colombia in 1954: Agency was told about man with a VERY familiar face who lived in an ex-SS community where he was called The Fuhrer and given Nazi salutes, declassified files show

  • Declassified CIA report details claims about a man claiming to be Hitler living in Colombia in the 1950s
  • Phillip Citroen, a former SS officer, told agents a man called Adolf Schuttlemayer was living in the town of Tunja, 85 miles north of Bogota, among a group of former Nazis in 1954
  • Citroen said the men called Schuttlemayer The Fuhrer, gave him Nazi salutes and 'afforded him storm-trooper adulation'
  • He even provided a photograph showing a man with a strong likeness of Hitler
  • Citroen said Hitler left Colombia in January 1955 and moved to Argentina