POSSIBLE REORGANIZATION OF ARGENTINE CABINET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001800290010-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 20, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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PORT 25X1A2g
?",STECT Possible Reorganization of Argentine Cabinet
DATE DISTR. - 20 August 198
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1. For some time rumors have been circulating in Argentine political circles
that President Peron will reorganize his cabinet and that this reorganiza--
Lion will affect primarily the chiefs of the War,. Navy and Aeronautics
ministries.
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2. a Ministry of National Defense will be M es EMPIRE= an a new Secretariat (or Ministry) of Security is being
studied.
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3. Similar reports states that the following
cabinet resignations are expected in the near futures
General Humberto Sosa Lioli.na, Minister of War
Rear Admiral Fidel Anadon, Minister of Navy
Brigadier Bartolome de la Colina, Secretary of Aeronautics
4. General Oscar R. Silva, former military secretary in the Casa Rosada and a 25X1 X6
leading Nationalist, will replace Sosa Molina and Admiral Enrique Garcia,
also a Nationalist, will replace Anadon. no candidate
mentioned for De la Colina0s post.*
5. The Secretariat of Security will be headed by the well-known Nationalist
General J. Filomeno Velazco, former Chief of Federal Police and now Inter-
ventor in Corrientes Provinces Velazco's post would fall to the present
minister of government in Corrientes, Dr. Hector Sustaita Seeber. 25X1X6
6. whether the Secretariat of Security
will merely another name for the Ministry of National Defense or whether
it will be a dependency of that Ministry when and if it is organized. 25X1A2g
*lUshington Comment: (B-3) reported that Brigadier Oscar Muratorio
is being cons ered as De la Colinas replacement.
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