WEEKLY SUMMARY MAY 13, 1977[SANITIZED] - 1977/05/13

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03013538
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 22
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: May 13, 1977

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EKLY SUMMARY, issued every Friday morning by the
nt Reporting Ciroup, reports and analyzes significant
pments oi the week through noon on Thursday. It fre-
ncludes material coordinated with or prepared by the
f Repional and Political Analysis, the Office of Eco-
search, the Office of Strategic Research, the Office of
Intelligence, the Office of Weapons Intelligence,
Office of Geographic and Cartographic Research.
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CONTENTS
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The recent arrest of former president
Alejandro Lanusse for suspected financial
wrongdoing in office has strong political
overtones. Three other top officials of the
military government that General
Lanusse headed in the early 1970s are also
being held.
Lanusse's arrest has been linked with
alleged improprieties on his part in con-
nection with a government contract for
construction of an aluminum plant, but it
is clear that political considerations were
uppermost in moving against the former
president at this time. His alleged mis-
deeds were neither unusual nor surprising
by Argentine standards, and any number
of officials could be called to account for
similar improprieties.
For some time, however, Lanusse has
drawn the ire of the current military
regime, particularly the so-called
hard-line officers who distrust him for his
role in paving the way for the return of
Juan Peron. More recently, Lanusse's
criticisms of the governmer t's harsh
security practices, his high public profile,
and his apparent ties to prominent
newspapermen have contributed to
suspicions that he is appealing to impor-
tant civilian sectors as a potential political
leader. The regime is not now prepared
even to consider a return to normal
politics.
The case against Lanusse has been un-
der investigation for several years, but
relatively little has been heard about it
recently, and many Argentines had
assumed the matter would be dropped.
Moreover, the case has been overshadow-
ed by recent developments in the in-
vestigation of alleged connections
between the family of missing financier
David Graiver and other prominent
citizens�including former government
officials�and the terrorist Montoneros.
The conduct of the case against
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Lanusse, as well as the Graiver investiga-
tion, could provide a rough gauge of the
relative strengths and weaknesses of
hard-liners and moderates within the
regime. If the campaign becomes more
aggressive and wide-ranging, it will in-
dicate that hard-liners are gaining the up-
per hand.
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