Uki Goñi

Uki Goñi is an Argentine author, best known for his ground-breaking research into the roles played by the Vatican, Swiss authorities and the government of Argentina in organizing escape routes for Nazi criminals and collaborators.

He has participated in countless documentaries by the BBC, Discovery Channel, History Channel, PBS and other media in the US and Europe.

He writes for The Guardian and The New York Review of Books. He has also written Op-Eds for the New York Times.

During Argentina's 1976-83 dictatorship he worked as a journalist at the Buenos Aires Herald, the only newspaper in Argentina to report on the "disappearance" of thousands of young people kidnapped, tortured and murdered by the military.

Goñi was born in Washington DC, gro

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