LETTER FROM WIFE OF JACOBO TIMERMAN TO PRESIDENT CARTER - 1979/03/26

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06626845
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: March 26, 1979

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SUBJECT: LETTER FROM WIFE OF JACOB IMERMAN TO
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2. EMBASSY HAS RECEIVED BY MAIL THE FOLLOWING LETTER,
DATED MARCH 11, FROM WIFE OF JACOB� TIMERMAN:
QUOTE DEAR MR. CARTER:
BEING THE WIFE OF THE JOURNALIST JACOB� TIMERMAN AND
MOTHER OF HIS THREE SONS, I WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS MY
DEEPEST THANKS FOR YOUR PROCEEDINGS WITH THE PRESIDENT
OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC IN BEHALF OF MY HUSBAND'S
RELEASE. HE IS STILL BEING "DETAINED AND ISOLATED UNDER
SURVEILLANCE" IN OUR BUENOS AIRES HOME.
FURTHERMORE, I WOULD LIKE TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THE
COURAGEOUS AND SKILLFUL WORK OF DR. CASTRO, YOUR
AMBASSADOR TO ARGENTINA, FOLLOWING YOUR INSPIRATION IN
YOUR UNCEASING STRUGGLE IN BEHALF OF HUMAN RIGHTS, HAS
HIGHLY CONTRIBUTED TO PRESERVE UNTIL NOW MY HUSBAND'S
LIFE.
JACOB� TIMERMAN /S ONLY GUILTY OF HAVING INSISTED, BOTH
PERSONALLY AND AS A JOURNALIST, IN FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY
AND HUMAN RIGHTS. BUT HE IS STILL BEING KEPT A PRISONER
IN OUR HOME, THERE BEING NO JUDICIAL OR POLITICAL CHARGES
LEVELLED AGAINST HIM.
LET US ONLY HOPE THAT WITH THE HELP OF GOD, IN THIS CASE,
AS IN MANY OTHERS, THE EFFORTS OF YOUR ADMINISTRATION,
PAST AND FUTURE, WILL LEAD TO THE RELEASE OF MY HUSBAND
AND HIS REUNION WITH US.
ONCE MORE, MY HEARTFELT THANKS.
/S/ MRS. RISCHE M. TIMERMAN, KLONIMOS ST. 5, TEL AVIV,
TEL. [phone]. UNQUOTE VIETS
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HR Highlights Item:
TIME RMAN
Former "La Opinion" editor (I thought publisher) Jacobo Timerman was
permitted
/to leave his apartement where he is under house arrest to be examined by
an eye specialist to correct a problem in Timerman's only eye. Reportedly
permission for the visit was granted by a special plea made by Rabi Leon
(Tex: Is this correct?)
Clinki (phonic), an Argentine working with B'nai Brith/in Argentina
to Minister of Interior Harguindeguy. Timerman is reportedly increasingly
depressed. His immediate family is in Israel; his relatives' visiting
hours have been restricted as well as those of his rabi.
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1. WASHINGTON OFFICE OF B'NAI B'RITH ADVISED DEPARTMENT
THAT JACOBO TIMERMAN INTENDED TO BEGIN HUNGER STRIKE ON
MARCH 2410 PROTEST HIS CONTINUED DETENTION BY GOA.
ACCORDING TO B'NAI B'RITH, TIMERMAN CHOSE MARCH 24 AS
THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF COUP AND THE APPROACHING OF THE SECOND
ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DETENTION. B'NAI B'RITH RECEIVED
REPORT OF IMPEDING HUNGER STRIKE FROM ITS CONTACTS IN
BUENOS AIRES WHO HAD BEEN INFORMED BY JOSE TIMERMAN. B'NAI
B'RITH IS AWARE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY INVITATION TO
TIMERMAN BUT BELIEVED THAT HUNGER STRIKE WAS NOT
NECESSARILY CONNECTED AND THAT
TIMERMAN'S MAIN GOAL IS STILL EMIGRATION TO ISRAEL TO JOIN
HIS FAMILY. B'NAI B'RITH HAS INFORMED ITS AFFILIATES OF
HUNGER STRIKE AND WILL SEEK TO_ORGANIZE PRESSURE ON GOA TO
RELEASE TIMERMAN.
2. DEPARTMENT WOULD APPRECIATE RECEIVING ANY CONFIRMATION
THE EMBASSY MAY OBTAIN OF TIMERMAN HUNGER STRIKE. NEWSOM
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