(30 May 2007) 1. Holocaust Museum delegates showing Adolf Eichmann's Red Cross Passport to the media 2. Various close-ups of passport showing Eichmann picture, Red Cross stamp and Eichmann's fake Italian name and date of birth 3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mario Feferbaum, President of the Holocaust Museum: "It is an historical document which was in the court archive with the documents of the case. A person asked about the documents and the judge found out that the original copy of the passport was attached to them, and it was under the name of Mr. Klement who as a matter of fact was Eichmann." 4. Cutaway of passport 5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mario Feferbaum, President of the Holocaust Museum: "It is curious that Eichmann was never investigated in Argentina for false ideology, which would be the crime related to false documents." 6. Mid of news conference STORYLINE: The aging cardboard passport used by Adolf Eichmann, a high-ranking Nazi who escaped to Argentina after World War II, has been recovered from musty court files by a judge who stumbled upon it more than a half century after it was issued. Eichmann, one of the leaders of a campaign of mass deportation of Jews to extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe during the war, fled to Argentina in 1950 under the alias "Roberto Klement." Abducted by Israeli agents in 1960 from a Buenos Aires suburb where he was living, he was taken to Israel, tried for crimes against humanity and then hanged in 1962. At a news conference held at Buenos Aires' Holocaust Museum, a woman used white latex gloves to hold up the remarkably well-preserved passport, which was issued in 1948 by an Italian delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross. The passport, on a single page of cardboard fold in three parts, bears the photograph of Eichmann and the neatly hand-lettered alias "Roberto Klement." It also bears the words "Comite International De la Croix-Rouge" or International Committee of the Red Cross in French and a stamp of its Genoa, Italy, delegation. Federal Judge Maria Servini de Cubria opened the Eichmann legal file recently at the request of a researcher, and it was then she spotted the passport amid aged papers. "A person asked about the documents and the judge found out that the original copy of the passport was attached to them, and it was under the name of Mr. Klement who as a matter of fact was Eichmann,'' said Mario Feferbaum, President of the Holocaust Museum. The legal file containing the passport was being kept in a courthouse repository housing (m) millions of documents from historical court cases. The passport will be a key addition to a museum, which is largely filled with the photographs, letters, possessions and oral testimonies of Jewish concentration camp survivors. Experts will study it and make it ready for exhibition in coming weeks in a humidity-controlled display. The passport also shows an entry stamp dating to June 1950, when Eichmann entered Argentina. He worked a series of jobs in Argentina before he was tracked to a northern capital suburb and abducted by Israeli agents who spirited him back to their country. During his televised trial, he sat in a glass booth as a series of Holocaust survivors and others testified to his role in arranging the transport of victims to concentration camps. He defended himself by saying he was merely following superior orders. Eichman's wife reportedly gave the passport to authorities when she reported him missing. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/e1d2c224b3093a96df4682e603df116e