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After the war he is said to have been employed by the CIA because he was fiercely Anti-Soviet . He is then alleged to have fled to Syria , possibly in 1954, and hired as a "government advisor"—with some suggesting he was advising the Syrian dictatorship on Torture and Repression techniques. While unsuccessfully hunted by the late Simon Wiesenthal , he is believed to live in Damascus , Syria, under the Alias "Dr. Georg Fischer". Germany and other countries have unsuccessfully requested his extradition. He was twice sentenced to death '' In Absentia '' in the 1950s ; one of those convictions was in France in 1954, when its death penalty was still in effect. In August 1987 an Interpol " Red Notice " (a sort of international arrest warrant) was issued for him. In 1995 German State prosecutors in Cologne and Frankfurt posted a US$ 333,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. Brunner lost an eye and several fingers from Letter Bomb s sent to him years ago by Israel 's intelligence service, Mossad . In December 1999 , rumors surfaced saying that he had died in 1996 and had been buried. However, German journalists visiting Syria said Brunner was living at the Meridian Hotel in Damascus . On March 2 , 2001 , he was found guilty '' In Absentia '' by a French court for Crimes Against Humanity and was sentenced to Life Imprisonment {Link without Title} . Brazil ian police are investigating whether a suspect living in the country under an assumed name is actually Alois Brunner. {Link without Title} If still alive, he would likely be considered the last surviving major war criminal of the Holocaust yet to be brought to justice. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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