[T]he U.S. had exfiltrated Klaus Barbie through the CIA because he was starting to be too much of a liability. He eventually ended up in Bolivia in 1951, officially as a wood mill owner but in the 1960s, Klaus secretly started working for the Bolivian dictatorship to help them track opponents to the régime — mainly socialists and communists.

Suspicions were mounting against Klaus Altmann. In the wood mill, he marked all tenth planks with a small swastika. Then, from 1966 to 1971, he headed the Compagnie Transmaritima Boliviana, the biggest Bolivian maritime shipping company that was also responsible for fuelling the drug and weapons trade in South America. In the ’70s, it seems he was once again hired by the CIA.

This was bringing him international attention, and people like the Klarsfelds, who made it their life mission to track ex-Nazis, were on his tail.

It all culminated in 1972. French Journalist Ladislas de Hoyos was set on unmasking Klaus Altmann once and for all. He organized an interview with Klaus which was to be monitored and overseen by the Bolivian government — then still an anti-communist dictatorship. The questions in the interview were sent to be approved beforehand and they would be asked in Spanish only. It would last only a few minutes and be monitored by Bolivian soldiers.