A former CIA agent claims there is a growing body of evidence showing Adolf Hitler faked his own death in Germany and actually escaped to Argentina, where followers tried to reboot his fallen Nazi empire.

Bob Baer, who spent his 21-year career in espionage, says the official version of history – with Hitler dying by suicide in 1945 – might need rethinking once anticipated bombshell evidence is released.

He expects a forthcoming set of documents out of Argentina to reveal possible entanglements between the fascist dictator and the South American government that may have been hiding him.

Baer, 72, believes the archives on Nazis who fled to Argentina after the war may spotlight efforts to build a Fourth Reich in South America, and implicate Argentinian officials in the support of Nazis, money laundering schemes and more.

He’s anticipating a paper or money trail pointing to both Argentinian government involvement in the construction of a possible Nazi hideout in the Misiones province (which was uncovered in a 2015 archaeological dig), and President Juan Perón’s backing of a 1950s nuclear fusion lab headed by a Nazi scientist on a remote island.

We don’t yet know when Argentinian officials plan to release the findings, but we do know this idea of Hitler’s escape has been examined for decades.

Even the Eisenhower administration took the toppled führer’s possible survival seriously, Baer says.

In the 2015 History Channel show Hunting Hitler, Baer and others floated theories about Hitler’s escape and of Nazi stragglers regrouping with the help of sympathetic South American leaders.