STATE DEPARTMENT MISSING DOCUMENTS[SANITIZED] - 1977/06/09

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Keywords: INTELLIGENCE REPORTS
• Keywords: MISSING DOCUMENT
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01226009
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: June 9, 1977

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ACTION SY-05
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INFO OCT-01 I80-00 /006 W
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R 091956Z JUN 77
FM AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 0890
C ONFIDENTIALBUENOS AIRES 4316
SY CHANNEL
DEPT FOR SY/OPS/DO FROM RSO
E.O. 11652: GDS 3.3(b)(1)
TAGS: ASEC
SUBJECT:
STATE DEPARTMENT MISSING
DOCUMENTS
REF: STAT
3.3(b)(1)
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I. (A) COPIES OF
DOCUMENTS CAN
BE OBTAINED
IN
WASHINGTON.
C. MISSING DOCUMENTS WERE NOT FOR RETENTION IN THE AMBS OFFICE.
THEY WERE PREPARED TO BRIEF HIM ON ACTIVITIES THAT HAD TAKEN
PLACE AT POST DURING HIS ABSENCE FROM LATE OCT TO EARLY DEC 76.
BRIEFING MATERIAL WOULD
HAVE BEEN SENT BUJK TO THE ORIGINATING OFFICES.
D. AMBASSADOR HILL DEPARTED POST ON MAY 10, 1977.
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E. AMBS SECRETARY STATES THAT HER MEMO TO THE AMB
REQUESTING RETURN OF THE MISSING DOCUMENTS WAS SENT ON
THE 5TH OR 6TH OF MAY. HOWEVER, SHE HAS NOT RETAINED
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A COPY OF THE MEMO.
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F. AMB HILL DID NOT SIGN JF-3 SEPARATION STATEMENT AS
HE INTENDED THE SEPARATION TO BE IN THE US. HOWEVER,
HE WAS INSTRUCTED BY RSO ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS PRIOR
TO HIS DEPARTURE NOT TO REMOVE ANY CLASSIFIED OR ADMIN-
ISTRATIVELY CONTROLLED MATERIAL FROM THE POST. ARRANGE-
MENTS WERE MADE FOR HIS SECRETARY TO POUCH SUCH CLASSIFIED
MATERIAL TO THE DEPT FOR REVIEW AND POSSIBLE RELEASE.
AMB HILL AGREED TO THIS PROCEDURE.
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G. AMBS SECRETARY STATED SHE IS CERTAIN THAT THE AMB
DID NOT POUCH ANY DOCUMENTS TO THE DEPT. SHE HANDLED
ALL OF HIS CORRESPONDENCE AND OFFICIAL AND PERSONAL
TRANSACTIONS AND WOULD HAVE BEEN AWARE OF ANY SUCH DIS-
(,POSITION OF KHUOCUMUMENTS.
H. AMBS SECRETARY ALSO STATED SHE HANDLED THE DESTRUCTION
OF THE MATERIALS FROM THAT OFFICE AND THAT THE DOCUMENTS
TO THE BEST OF HER KNOWLEDGE HAD NOT BEEN DESTROYED.
I. THERE IS A SAFE AT AMES RESIDENCE WHICH WAS CHECKED
BY AMBS SECRETARY SHORTLY AFTER HIS DEPARTURE AND WAS
EMPTY.
CHAPLIN
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