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SOURCE: National Security Archive
3/23/2021

Argentina’s Military Coup of 1976: What the U.S. Knew

Newly declassified documents demonstrate that the US government, including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, were aware of the developing coup and evaluated policy as a balancing of the prospective military dictatorship's friendliness to the US against its likely willingness to commit human rights violations.

SOURCE: The Atlantic
1/17/2021

My Sister Was Disappeared 43 Years Ago

A writer became the legally-designated recipient of his sister's remains after she was killed by Argentina's military dictatorship during the nation's Dirty War. The experience led him to confront how a society suppresses the knowledge of political violence.

11/15/2020

Can the COVID Crisis Create a New Civilian-Military Trust in Argentina?

by David M. K. Sheinin y Cesar R. Torres

Many Argentinians have been suspicious of military involvement in civil affairs since the end of the country's military dictatorship in 1983. Two scholars ask if the COVID crisis presents an opportunity for healing and reimagining the military's role in Argentina.

SOURCE: New York Times
11/20/2020

How to Shame a Dictator

The families of victims of Argentina's far-right "dirty war" didn't let the perpetrators go unpunished after regime change; they took direct action to expose those who committed crimes and pressed for the repeal of amnesty laws.

SOURCE: The Conversation
5/10/19

Truth, justice and declassification: Secret archives show US helped Argentine military wage ‘dirty war’ that killed 30,000

by Rut Diamint

The archives narrate the human rights abuses committed by Argentina’s military government, often with the assistance of the United States.

SOURCE: National Security Archive
4/12/19

Trump Administration Turns Over Massive Collection of Intelligence Records on Human Rights and Argentina

The 47,000 Pages of CIA, FBI, NSC, DOD and State Dept. Records Touted as “Largest” Government-to-Government Transfer of Declassified Documentation

SOURCE: National Security Archive
3/24/19

Trump Administration to Turn Over Trove of Declassified Records to Argentina on Human Rights Violations Committed During Military Dictatorship

The turnover of formerly secret U.S. intelligence records—the collection will include CIA, FBI, NSC, and Defense Intelligence Agency documents—will culminate a special U.S. government declassification project authorized three years ago today by then-President Barack Obama.

SOURCE: NBC News
6-20-17

Hidden Trove of Suspected Nazi Artifacts Found in Argentina

Some 75 objects were found in a collector's home in Beccar, a suburb north of Buenos Aires, and authorities say they suspect they are originals that belonged to high-ranking Nazis in Germany during World War II.

SOURCE: NYT
12-29-16

Argentine Court Reopens Investigation of Ex-President in ’94 Bomb Case

A court reopened a criminal complaint that accuses former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of a cover-up in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center.

SOURCE: National Security Archive
12-12-16

Obama Declassifies Top Secret Intelligence Files on Repression in Argentina

New documents shed light on OPERATION CONDOR, including planned missions in Europe and assassinations of leaders in Amnesty International.

SOURCE: National Security Archive
8-11-16

Declassified U.S. Records Highlight Argentine Military Abuses, Internal Carter White House Debate over Human Rights Policy

Records show Kissinger sought to undermine human rights message in Argentina.

SOURCE: The Guardian
8-9-16

Kissinger hindered US effort to end mass killings in Argentina, according to files

Newly declassified files show the former secretary of state jeopardized efforts to crackdown on bloodshed by Argentina’s 1976-83 military dictatorship.

SOURCE: National Security Archive
8-8-16

U.S. Policy in Argentina Declassified

The records document repression in Argentina during the years the country was run by the military.

SOURCE: NYT
3-24-16

Obama Expresses Regret for U.S. Policies During Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’

The United States “has to examine its own policies as well, and its own past,” the president said at a memorial to victims of the war in 1970s and ’80s.

SOURCE: NYT
3-17-16

NYT editorial calls on Obama to reveal America’s role in the Argentine dirty war

Obama’s visiting Argentina during the 40th anniversary of the coup that led to the dirty war.

SOURCE: WaPo
3-23-15

Secret Nazi hideout believed found in remote Argentine jungle

"We can find no other explanation as to why anyone would build these structures, at such great effort and expense, in a site which at that time was totally inaccessible."

SOURCE: Truth Dig
2-11-15

Argentina’s History of Assassinations and Suspicious Suicides

by Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica

The persistence of state-connected violence and intrigue in Argentina goes way back.

3-1-15

You Can Blame Juan Peron for Argentina’s Inflation

by Eduardo Singerman

It was the result of out and out fraud.

SOURCE: Al Jazeera America
1-19-14

Argentina's Truth Commission at 30

by Fabián Bosoer and Federico Finchelstein

A monumental victory for global justice, Conadep's model should be followed more closely by other war-torn countries.

SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
8-1-13

Memos reveal six months of planning behind Thatcher's top secret visit to the Falklands

Margaret Thatcher’s 1983 visit to the Falklands was akin to a military operation in its own right and followed six months of meticulous planning.The prime minister visited the islands for four days in January to mark the 150th anniversary of the establishment of a permanent British settlement.The trip, less than eight months after the end of the conflict, had to be kept secret because of the “significant” threat from Argentina, confidential government files show.The documents, released today by the National Archives under the new 20-year rule, include extensive briefings from the Ministry of Defence marked “Secret UK Eyes A” about travel arrangements....