Rodolfo Freude (1922 2003) was a close advisor of Argentine President Juan Perón and served as his Director of the Information Division (División de Informaciones). Freude, an Argentine citizen of German descent, is suspected of having organized ODESSA and helping the smuggling of Nazi officers to Argentina. The ODESSA, from the German Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen, meaning Organization for Former SS Members, is believed to have been an international Nazi network set up toward the end of World War II by a group of SS officers.