PLANS OF ARGENTINE SECURITY OFFICIALS TO KILL ARGENTINE SUBVERSIVE LEADERS ABROAD IF FEASIBLE - 1977/05/27

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06701425
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: May 27, 1977

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A SPECIAL TEAM HAS BEEN
FORMED TO KILL MARIO FIRMENICH, HEAD OF THE MONTONEROS,
AND OTHER ARGENTINE SUBVERSIVE LEADERS WHO ARE ABROAD.
AN OPERATION WAS MOUNTED IN EARLY MAY TO TRY TO
TRICK FIRMENICH, WHO WAS THOUGHT TO BE HIDING IN SPAIN, INTO ATTENDING
AN ALLEGED URGENT MEETING OF SUBVERSIVES IN MADRID. THE TEAM USED
A MONTONERO, WHO, UNBEKNOWN TO FIRMENICH, HAD BEEN DETAINED TO TRY
TO COI'MNICATE WITH FIRMENICH AND URGE HIM TO COME TO THE MEETING.
FIRMENICH, HOWEVER, EVIDENTLY SUSPECTED A TRAP AND FAILED TO SHOW.
ARGENTINE SECURITY PERSONNEL CONSIDER IT HIGHLY POSSIBLE THAT FIRMENICH
SUBSEQUENTLY FLED TO LIBYA. EFFORTS AGAINST FIRMENICH HAVE BEEN
TEMPORARILY ABANDONED, AND PLANS ARE NOW BEING FORMULATED TO ASSASSINATE
RODOLFO GALIMBERTI .AMONTONERO LEADER WHO IS BELIEVED TO
BE IN MEXICO.
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IS ASSISTING IN THE PROPOSED OPERATIONS AGAINST SUBVERSIVES
ABROAD BY PROVIDING INFORMATION AND OTHER ASSISTANCE.
"GROUP TWO" INCLUDES PERSONNEL FROM THE NAVY, ARMY 601ST INTELLIGENCE
BATTALION, FEDERAL POLICE, AND SIDE. THE ACTUAL TEAM TO IMPLEMENT
THE OPERATIONS IS COMPOSED OF PERSONNEL FROM ALL THESE ENTITIES BUT
IS DOMINATED BY THE NAVY. ( COMMENT: THE ABOVE GROUP PROBABLY
REFERS TO GROUP TWO OF THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER.)
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1977 ARMY INTELLIGENCE (G-2) ORDERED THE FORMATION OF A TEAM TO CARRY
OUT OPERATIONS AGAINST KEY LEADERS OF THE MONTONEROS AND THE PEOPLE'S
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY (ERP) WHO ARE PRESENTLY RESIDING IN EUROPE.
INDIVIDUALS SELECTED FOR THE TEAM WERE SPECIALISTS IN ASSASSINATION
5 AND KIDNAPPING OPERATIONS AND INCLUDED PERSONNEL FROM THE ARGENTINE
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6. FOLLOWING THE FORMATION OF THE TEAM, REQUESTS WERE MADE
TO FRENCH, ITALIAN AND SPANISH AUTHORITIES FOR APPROVAL TO CARRY OUT
THE OPERATIONS IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES. THE REQUESTS, HOWEVER.
WERE FIRMLY TURNED DOWN BY OFFICIALS OF FRANCE AND ITALY WHERE MOST
OF THE KEY ARGENTINE SUBVERSIVES ARE BELIEVED TO BE RESIDING. SPANISH
AUTHORITIES, WHILE ONCE RECEPTIVE TO ARGENTINE OPERATIONS IN SPAIN,
HAVE RECENTLY BECOME LESS COOPERATIVE, DUE PRIMARILY TO SPAIN'S
INTERNAL POLITICAL PROBLEMS. AS A RESULT OF THE RESPONSE FROM THE
FRENCH, ITALIANS AND SPANISH, GENERAL CARLOS MARTINEZ. CHIEF
OF G-2, ORDERED THAT THE PROPOSED OPERATIONS AGAINST ARGENTINE SUBVER-
SIVES IN EUROPE BE SUSPENDED. HOWEVER, THE MATTER WILL BE RAISED AGAIN
WITH EUROPEAN AUTHORITIES, IF CONSIDERED APPROPRIATE, AT A LATER DATE.
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