This Special Report provides an overview of terrorism in Argentina; Significant developments since the death of President Juan D. Peron on July 1974 are emphasized. For a complete analysis of the problem in a historical perspective. see AFOSI's Special Report entitled ''Insurgency in Latin Pmerjca11 dated June 1974, In focusing on the bitter struggle between leftist terrorists and regime security instruments, stress has been placed on how terrorism affects the US presence in Argentina.
Information used in the preparation of this report includes data generated by various US agencies including the State Department, Central Intelligence Agency ah<l Defense Intelligence Agency; Various open sources including newspapers and magazines were also used.
This study conforms with the provisions of DOD Directive 5200.27; it fulfills requirements levied by the OA as published in the Counterintelligence Publications Re9istry (CIPR) dated July 1974. The information unless otherwise indicated is current as of 30 May 1975.
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Operative Independence: 1975 (Part I)
Operative Independence: 1975 (Part II)
On February 5, 1975, the government of Isabel Perón signed a secret decree ordering the Army to start "Operation Independence" in Tucumán. The pretext of the military was to annihilate the Ramón Rosa Jiménez company of the ERP, but the real objective was to destroy the combative popular movement in Tucuman through kidnapping, the disappearance of people and clandestine detention centers where thousands of Tucumans were tortured and murdered. There was also a fight at the cultural level against the ideas and values of university students, artists, intellectuals, scientists and religious, located in the city of San Miguel de Tucumán.
Between 1975 and 1976, confrontations took place in Santa Lucía, Potrero de Las Tablas, Quebrada de Lules, Río Pueblo Viejo, Manchalá, Las Maravillas, San Gabriel stream, Acheral, Tafí Viejo, Potrero Negro and El Cadillal.
Brigadier General Acdel Vilas affirmed that it was an "eminently cultural" guerrilla since the guerrilla was "only an armed manifestation of the subversive process." Most of the victims were workers in the sugar industry, cane peelers, day laborers, small storekeepers, butchers, and students who were persecuted, kidnapped, and murdered. It was a vast repressive apparatus that oriented its true actions to destroy the union, political and student leaders, a systematic attack from the State against a substantial part of the population that had been identified as "enemies" of the economic plan and politician who defined "the new argentinidad".
"If I have seen you, I don't remember" is a program on Public TV, hosted by Felipe Pigna, about the historical archives of the channel. A journey through images that we did not see, that we may not remember but will see again, with the particular approach and sensitivity of the historian. Milestones, facts, anecdotes, conquests and tragedies of our history, so that we can remember again, be moved and build our collective memory together.
