ARRIVAL OF SKILLED TECHNICIANS IN ARGENTINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002500070007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 24, 2005
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 14, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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UNTRY Argentina
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMA EPORT CD NO.
25X1 SUBJECT Arrival of Skilled Technicians in Argentina
ACQUIRED
DATE OF INP
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DATE DISTR. 3.4 Mar 1949
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1. Approximately 1500 skilled technicians whose services were contracted for in
advance by the Argentine rnmant are reported to have arrived. recently in
Argentina. Among them are Germans in large majority, and anti-Communist
nationals of Soviet satellite countries.
2. Preference is being given by the Argentine government to individuals skilled
in chemistry and military production. They are carefully chosen by Argentine
Military Attaches abroad on the basis of their capabilities and past performances.
Excellent accommodations and treatment are provided by the Argentine government
and employment is given them in various Argentine government agencies. No Jews
are accepted.
3. Despite their technical abilities and the equipment which they brought with
them, the technicians are said to be handicapped in their work in Argentina by
the lack of essential equipment'which cannot be imported to Argentina because
of the critical dollar shortage.
A recent arrival in Buenos Aires, whose trip may have been sponsored by the
'Argentine government as part of its program to bring skilled German technicians
to Argentina, is one Friedrioh Grimm. A German national traveling with an
Austrian passport, Grim arrived with his wife and three children in Buenos
Aires an 29 January 1949, aboard the Italian ship ANNA C, Before boarding the
ANNA C. in Lisbon, Grimm stayed with his family for a long period at the
Palace Hotel, Luria, Portugal. They were provided with first class accommoda.
tions by the Argentine government and were allowed to transport any amount of
household and personal effects.
5 ? Grimm is an electronics engineer. He claims to have been employed for ten years
prior to the war in the television section of Telefunken, the German co pica.
tions combine, He is at present under contract to the Argentine government and
is working in Fabricaciones Militares (tilitary Factories) of the Ministry of
War, However, Grimm hopes to eventually cows to the United States. He states
that progress in Fabricaoiones Militares is so unsatisfactory that he is unable
to use his full capabilities.*
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Co n, , A Friedrich Grimm teas formerly attached to the Ger an Emb
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in Buenos Aires, On the night of 13 March 1943, his home in Dewar,* FCCA, was
raided by the Argentine police in an attempt to locate a radio transmitter said
to be operated clandestinely by Grimm, Grimm claimed that the equipment removed
during the raid was the property of the German Embassy, After a lengthy corres-
pondence between the German Embassy and the Argentine Foreign Office, the equip-
nent was returned to Grimm. Additional information available indicates that
Grimm was born in Vienna on 30 August 1907, is married, is an engineer by pro-
fession, and arrived in Argentina on 9 March 1939 traveling on a German passport
issued in Berlin. A postal intercept indicated that he had strong Nazi sentiments,
Together with his family, he was repatriated with the German diplomatic mission
in Argentina on 6 July 1944?
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