NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY THURSDAY APRIL 21, 1977[SANITIZED] - 1977/04/21

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02986726
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: April 21, 1977

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Argentina
Probe of Subversives
Prominent Argentine civilian and
military leaders are growing in-
creasingly concerned about apparent
links between the leftist Montoneros
urban guerrillas and prominent civilian
businessmen, journalists, and officials
of previous governments
The most important issue appears to be
the investigation of alleged connections
between the Montoneros and the family
and associates of financier David Graiver.
This case apparently has important
political implications. Hardliners in the
military can be expected to see in it the
justification they seek for the harsh an-
ti-guerrilla measures they advocate.
Indeed, these officers may be pressing the
investigation of the Graiver case for
precisely that reason.
The financier, who allegedly died last
year, is said to have handled the vast
financial assets the Montoneros ac-
cumulated in ransom from kidnapings. A
number of persons connected in one way
or another with Graiver have now come
under suspicion; at least a few of those im-
plicated were minor officials of either the
ousted Peronist administration or a past
military government.
At a time when the military govern-
ment is claiming substantial success
against the guerrilla movement, the
Graiver affair will undoubtedly raise new
fears that only the surface has been
scratched. Because it implicates in-
dividuals heretofore not known to be in-
volved with the left, the case could set the
stage for the military attempting to ferret
out subversives among persons who
otherwise might not have come under
suspicion.
The military unity that President
Videla has carefully put together in recent
months does not yet appear to be in
danger, but the investigation has the
potential to put that consensus to an early
test by emboldening right-wing officers
who in recent weeks have milted their
criticism
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