PRESIDENT MARIA ESTELLA DE PERON'S HEALTH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78S01932A000100090004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 5, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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ITEM NO: DATE: 5 SEP 74
SUBJECT: P CORESIDENT MARIA ESTELA DE PERON'S HEALTH 25X1A2g
REF 5 SEP 74, SECRET NFD; 25X1A2g
25X1A2g 0509252 SEP 74, CONF
25X1X6 PRESIDENT PERON SUFFERED ANOTHER NERVOUS ATTACK YESTERDAY
MORNING THIS TIME IT
COULD BE A LITTLE MORE SERIOUS SINCE SHE REPORTEDLY HAD TO BE
FLOWN BY HELICOPTER FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE DOWNTOWN TO THE
OFFICIAL RESIDENCE AT OLIVOS WHERE SHE IS BEING ATTENDED BY
PHYSICIANS.
25X1X6 MRS. PERSON HAS AN ANEMIC CONDITIONS WHICH
HAS BEEN WORSENING LATELY. THE BUENOS AIRES PRESS ATTRIBUTES THE
ILLNESS TO A SLIGHT ATTACK OF LOW BLOOD PRESSURE.
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MRS. PERON HAS BEEN VERY
NERVOUS RECENTLY, HAS EATEN LITTLE, AND IS LOSING WEIGHT. OTHER
SOURCES CLAIM THAT HER HEALTH IS DETERIORATING DUE TO THE STRAINS
OF THE OFFICES
EFOR SEVERAL MONTHS LAST SPRING SHE WAS REURPORTED TO BE E10i0US
SUFFERING FROM SEVERE MENTAL DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, AND WEIGHT LOSS
AND WAS UNDER PSYCHIATRIC CARE. THE EPISODE WAS PRECIPITATED BY
HER APPREHENSION CONCERNING HER HUSBAND'S HEALTH AND FEARS OF HER
INABILITY TO GOVERN IN HIS ABSENCE. HER CURRENT STATE IS PROBABLY
RELATED TO THE SAME ISSUES--DEPRESSION OVER LOSS OF HER HUSBAND
AND ANXIETY BECAUSE SHE IS IN OVER HER HUEAD. IT MAY WELL BE THAT
MRS. PERON'S EMOTIONAL REACTION IS EXAGGERATED BECAUSE OF BEING
IN THE MENOPAUSAL PERIOD.
ALTHOUGH IT IS DIFFICULT TO GAUGE THE SERIOUSONESS OF HER
CONDITION AT THIS POINT, IT IS CONCEIVABLE THAT SHE WOULD RESIGN
IF SHE FINDS THE PRESSURE TOO GREAT. THAT PROSPECT WOULD PROMPT
MILITARY, PERONIST, AND OPPOSITION PARTY LEADERS TO APPEAL FOR HER
TO STAY ON AND AVERT A POLITICAL CRISIS THAT NONE OF THEM WANT.
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PRESS SOURCES HAVE FLOATED THE IDEA RECENTLY THAT THE
GOVERNMENT INTEWUNDS TO ESTABLISH A POST OF PRIME MINISTER TO
ALLEVIATE SOME OF MRS. PERON'S DUTIES. IF SHE ACCEDES TO SUCH
A PROPOSAL, IT WOULD IN EFFECT RESULT IN HER BECOMING A FIGUREHEAD
WITH REAL POWER DEVOLVING TO HER CHIEF ADVISERS- E2 IMPDET.rI
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