ALLEGED BELIEF OF THE ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT THAT THE CURRENT U.S. ADMINISTRATION IS TRYING TO "DESTABILIZE" IT BY USING THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN - 1980/01/17

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06704642
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: January 17, 1980

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THIS IS AN INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FInA1LY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE.
REPORT CIA .WNINTEL
COUNTRY: ARGENT 3.5(c)
SUBJECT: ' BELIEF OF THE ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT THAT THE
CURRENT U.S. ADMiNISTRATION IS TRYING To 00Es1ABTLIZE"
IT BY USING IHE
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WWI ON ARGENTINA PREPARED BY IRE LATFR-AnERICAN ComMISSION
DR NUAAR_RIGHTS UM), THE REPORT IS VERY
SERIOUS AND TINY NEGATIVE FD R THE ARGENTINE GOVERMENT;
3.3(b)(1) A U.S. CITIEEN ON THE lACRR MAD "pARITcipATED
SIGNIFICANTLY' IR ITS PREPARATION. THE REPORT
� PROVIDES aims OF SPECIFIC INCIDENTS OF ALLEGED HUMAN RIMS
VIOLATIONS IN ARGENTINA, MIMING INC FULL NAMES Of HILITARY
OFFICERS WHO TDom PART, THE HANES OF PERSONS IVEY m:DMAPPEO,
3.3(b)(1) sc. THE REPORT coNcLuDE5 THAI TORTURE WAS USED
SYSINATICALLY IN ARGENTINA.
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S. IEMBASSY POLITICAL COMMENT: AS REPORTED IN BUENOS
AIRES TELEGRAM 102, FRAGMENTS OF THE ABDTIE REPORT CIRCULATED
IN THE BUENOS AIRES PRESS IN THE LATTER HALF Of DECEMBER,
APPARENTLY PRECIPITATED BY, OR AT LEAST STRERGTITENED AS A
RESULT OF, 7HE PRESS RELEASE 13 DECEMBER OF A PRIVATE HUMAN
RIGHTS ORGANIZATION WWI RAS OFFICES IN WASHINGTON. IMRE
VE 00 NOT. NAVE THE TEXT OF TEAT RELEASE, IT PURPORTEDLY
PREDICTED, IN EFFECT, THAT READS WOULD ROLL IN THE ARGENTINE
GOVERNMENT WHEN tHE IACHR REPORT ON ARGENTINA wAS MADE PUBLIC.
ARGENTINE FOROGN MINISTER CARLOS WASHINGTON PASTOR HAS
TOLD THE PRESS THAI THE IACHR REPORT IS UNFAIRLY MGR ON
ARGENTINA AND BIASED. IN REPORTING DEVFLOPNEHIS CONCERNING
ARGENTINA'S EXARINATION OF TNE (STILL COnFTDENTIAll DRAFT
REPORT, THE BUENOS AIRES MEDIA RAVE IMPLIED THAT THE TORE
AND THRUST OF TRU REPORT WERE HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY THE STATE
DEPARTMENT-ALLUSIONS BEING MADE TO AN ALLEGEDLY CLOSE WORKING
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ONE SPECIFICALLY MED HERBER Of THE
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IACHR AND OFFICIALS Of THE STATE DEPARTMENT AS AN IRPLIED
EXPLANATION FOR THE NEGATIVE oulcomE OF THE REPoRr. vE
BELIEVE THAT ImE PRESS PLAY FOLLoui GUIDANCE PREPARED BY THE
ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT.
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ALNDST EVERY CRISIS IN ARGENTINE-US RELATIONS
INVOLVING HUMAN RIGRTS OVER THE PAST THREE AND A RALF YEARS
HAS BEEN ACCOMPANiED BY An EMOTIONAL KNEE-JERK RATICUALITATION
AMONG ELEHENTS WITHIN rME GOA, PuRPORTING AN AiLIGED US
ATTEMPT TO "DESTABILIZE" THE CURRENT MILITARY REG/If. GIVEN
THIS NATURAL PREDILECTION, IT IS NO SURPRISE TKAI THE GOA
WOULD REACT 10 THE IACHR REPORT 1/4 THIS FASHION, ESPECIALLY
SINCE IR THIS CASE THERE APPARENTLY IS A STATEMENT ON THE
RECORD EXPLICITLY PREDICTING THAI SPECIFIC CHANGES IN THE
ARGENTINE GOVEANMENT WILL RESULT FROM THE IACHR REPORT.)
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