PARA LA GILADA QUE HABLA AL PEDO Y DICE QUE NO HUBO 30.000 DESAPARECIDOS.
Mid-July 1978 - [Argentine Military Intelligence Estimates 22,000 people Dead or Disappeared, page A-8]
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Copy obtained by John Dinges at Argentina's Federal Courts. Cited in 2005 in John Dinges' book The Condor Years and published here for the first time.
The document excerpted here contains the only known report of the calculation by Argentine military intelligence itself of the number of people their operatives had killed in the repression. The document was sent to Chile's DINA headquarters by Chilean intelligence official Enrique Arancibia Clavel, who used the pseudonym "Luis Felipe Alemparte Diaz," and is based on records he was allowed to examine in the headquarters of Army Intelligence Battalion 601. Arancibia Clavel was Chile's representative in Argentina of the "Operation Condor" network created in November 1975 by the security forces of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. Weeks before writing this report, he had been requested by his superiors in Chile to send names and numbers of killed and disappeared in Argentina. The report provides important corroborating evidence that the true number of disappeared is significantly higher than the 9,089 persons listed by the National Commission on the Disappeared (CONADEP) report in the 1980s. It is also significant that the military intelligence count starts in 1975, at a time the military took over national repressive activities from the national police but several months before the military coup in March. Since the disappearances are known to have continued several more years, the actual total of those disappeared by the military should be extrapolated beyond the 22,000 who had already been killed at the time the report was written in July 1978. The document is among approximately 1500 pages of documents confiscated from Arancibia's office and home by the Federal Court of Argentina in November 1978 and held in court archives. John Dinges obtained a copy of the Federal Court's five volume compilation of Arancibia's documents in January 2002 and provided them to the National Security Archive. The document displayed here is Volume V, p. 238. The document was first published in John Dinges, The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents (The New Press).
Chilean intelligence officers had requested that Arancibia produce names and numbers of those dead and disappeared in Argentina. In a series of memorandums dated between the first half of June 1976 and mid 1978, the Chilean agent sent to Santiago thousands of names and dates of deaths and disappearances. In this particular report, Arancibia seems to summarize his accounting work and writes
"[T]hese lists include 'official' as well as 'non official' deaths. We got this from the Army Intelligence Battalion 601, located on Callao and Viamonte streets, which is under the Army Chief II of Intelligence at the Army general Command of the Chiefs of Staff of the Army. Those listed as NN are those unidentifiable corpses, almost 100% correspond to extremist individuals eliminated by "left hand," by the security forces. The tally of those killed and disappeared from 1975 up to date is 22,000. Luis Felipe Alemparte Diaz"
[Note: Left handed operations in the vocabulary of the security forces' secret trade meant anything that was illegal. For a description of the secret operations leading to the assassination and disappearance of people by security forces during the Argentine dictatorship, see the description by an Argentine intelligence officer in the section describing the "Fate of the Disappeared" on page 5 of the August 7, 1979 memorandum titled Nuts and Bolts of the Government's Repression of Terrorism-Subversion (National Security Archive briefing book 73, State Department Opens Files On Argentina's Dirty War)]
PARA LA GILADA QUE HABLA AL PEDO Y DICE QUE NO HUBO 30.000 DESAPARECIDOS.
a leer que no muerde: PDF en castellano:
Danuschi.
Mid-July 1978 - [Argentine Military Intelligence Estimates 22,000 people Dead or Disappeared, page A-8]
[Note: this page has been digitally enhanced for readability. For the full original scanned document click here]
Copy obtained by John Dinges at Argentina's Federal Courts. Cited in 2005 in John Dinges' book The Condor Years and published here for the first time.
The document excerpted here contains the only known report of the calculation by Argentine military intelligence itself of the number of people their operatives had killed in the repression. The document was sent to Chile's DINA headquarters by Chilean intelligence official Enrique Arancibia Clavel, who used the pseudonym "Luis Felipe Alemparte Diaz," and is based on records he was allowed to examine in the headquarters of Army Intelligence Battalion 601. Arancibia Clavel was Chile's representative in Argentina of the "Operation Condor" network created in November 1975 by the security forces of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. Weeks before writing this report, he had been requested by his superiors in Chile to send names and numbers of killed and disappeared in Argentina. The report provides important corroborating evidence that the true number of disappeared is significantly higher than the 9,089 persons listed by the National Commission on the Disappeared (CONADEP) report in the 1980s. It is also significant that the military intelligence count starts in 1975, at a time the military took over national repressive activities from the national police but several months before the military coup in March. Since the disappearances are known to have continued several more years, the actual total of those disappeared by the military should be extrapolated beyond the 22,000 who had already been killed at the time the report was written in July 1978. The document is among approximately 1500 pages of documents confiscated from Arancibia's office and home by the Federal Court of Argentina in November 1978 and held in court archives. John Dinges obtained a copy of the Federal Court's five volume compilation of Arancibia's documents in January 2002 and provided them to the National Security Archive. The document displayed here is Volume V, p. 238. The document was first published in John Dinges, The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents (The New Press).
Chilean intelligence officers had requested that Arancibia produce names and numbers of those dead and disappeared in Argentina. In a series of memorandums dated between the first half of June 1976 and mid 1978, the Chilean agent sent to Santiago thousands of names and dates of deaths and disappearances. In this particular report, Arancibia seems to summarize his accounting work and writes
"[T]hese lists include 'official' as well as 'non official' deaths. We got this from the Army Intelligence Battalion 601, located on Callao and Viamonte streets, which is under the Army Chief II of Intelligence at the Army general Command of the Chiefs of Staff of the Army. Those listed as NN are those unidentifiable corpses, almost 100% correspond to extremist individuals eliminated by "left hand," by the security forces. The tally of those killed and disappeared from 1975 up to date is 22,000. Luis Felipe Alemparte Diaz"
[Note: Left handed operations in the vocabulary of the security forces' secret trade meant anything that was illegal. For a description of the secret operations leading to the assassination and disappearance of people by security forces during the Argentine dictatorship, see the description by an Argentine intelligence officer in the section describing the "Fate of the Disappeared" on page 5 of the August 7, 1979 memorandum titled Nuts and Bolts of the Government's Repression of Terrorism-Subversion (National Security Archive briefing book 73, State Department Opens Files On Argentina's Dirty War)]
PARA LA GILADA QUE HABLA AL PEDO Y DICE QUE NO HUBO 30.000 DESAPARECIDOS.
a leer que no muerde: PDF en castellano:
Danuschi.