COMMENTS BY ARMY COMMANDING GENERAL JORGE RAFAEL VIDELA ON [SANITIZED]RESULTS OF THE ARMY ANTI-SUBVERSIVE CAMPAIGN - 1975/12/19

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06702764
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• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: December 19, 1975

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2 . VIDELA SAID' THAT WHILE CO NT IN GE NC Y PLANNING FOR A MILITARY
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THAT SUCH DtTERIS AT ION, PERHAPS IN A TWO TO THREE MONTH TIMEFRAME,
IS I NEVI TABLE, BUT HE RECO GN IZ ES THAT THE NA TI ON COULD CONCEIVABLY
MUDDLE THROUGH UNTIL ELECTIONS t� ITHOuT ENOUH DETERIORATION
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3. V ID EL A ACKNOWLEDGES THAT SOME OF HIS SUBORDINATE COMMANDERS
ARE PUSH IN G FOR IMME DI ATE IN TE kv EN TI ON, BUT E IS CONF ID EN T THAT T 1-EY
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WILL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW .HIS LEACErzsHIP AND WILL NOT ACT ON THEIR OWN.
WHEN AND IF THE ARMY DOES MOVE AGAINST THE 3:VERNENT, VI DELA EXPECTS
IT W ILL BE UNDER H IS LEADERSHIP, I-E B EL IE VE S THAT HE RA S COW IN CE
ALL HIS COMMANDERS TO POSTPONE ACTION FOR AT LEAST TWO MONTHS.
4, IF THE SITUATION REMAINS RO.UGHLY AS IT IS NOW WELL INTO 1 97 6
AND INTERVENTION IS NO T WARRANTED. VIDELA ExFECTS THAT THE MILITARY
� WILL HAVE A ROLE IN THE ELECTION PROCESS TO THE EXTENT OF INFLUENCING
THE SELECT ION OF C ANDI DATES. SPEC IF IC ALLY THE MILITARY INTEND To
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PREVENT PRESIDENT MARIA ESTELA mAR TI NEE DE PERoN FROM RUNNING
� AGAIN FOR THE PRESIDENCY, THEY ARE CONVINCED THAT PERONISm STILL
HAS SUCH AN ATTRACTION FOR THE MASS OF VOTERS THAT IF MRS. PERON
WERE TO. RUN, SHE WOULD LIKELY WIN. THIS. VI DELA BELIEVES, WOULD
� BE CATASTROPHIC 17OR THE NATION.
5, REGARDING THE ANT IeSUBVER SI VE CAMPAIGN, V !DELA BELIEVES
THAT THE ARMY HAS MADE CONSIDERAE_E PR OG RE SS IN REDUCING THE PEOPLES'
LIBERATION ARMY CERP) RURAL GUERRILLA FORCES TO VIRTUAL INEFFECTIVE-
NESS. BUT THE SI1UATION IS THE CPPoSITE WITH THE moNTONEROS, WH OM
VI DELA CONSIDERS TO BE GROWING IN SIZE AND EFFECTIVENESS. THE
MONTONEROSI CONCENTRATION ON URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL GUERRILLA ACTIVITY
MAKES THEM THE MORE FORMIDABLE OPPONENT. THE ARMY, IN REPRESSING THEM.
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