[SANITIZED]NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY SATURDAY MARCH 27, 1976 - 1976/03/27

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02995082
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: March 27, 1976

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The
National Intelligence
Daily
Published by the Director of Central Intelligence for Named Principals Only
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Copy No. I
SATURDAY MARCH 27, 1976 VOLUME 3, NUMBER 73
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Argentine Junta
Places Military
In Top Positions
Argentina's military government is
consolidating its control. Military officers
occupy the top positions in all 22
provinces and some local jurisdictions, as
well as all federal cxecutive posts.
The junta has named army commander
General Videla as president. A committee
of senior officers will advise him on
legislative matters. The intended duration
of military rule is still unclear; an of-
ficial communique specified only that jun-
ta members will not represent their serv-
ices for more than three years.
A ban on all political activity is in
effect, but only a handful of left-wing
splinter parties have been disbanded so
far. The Moscow-oriented Communist
Party is not among them.
The junta has taken over the admin-
istration of the General Confedera-
tion of Workers, the principal labor
organization, and banned its political af-
filitate, the so-called 62 Organizations.
The junta has made no pronouncements
on its most pressing problem, the
economy. It has said, however, that
civilians will be appointed to cabinet posts
requiring "unique specialties," and the
economy ministry is almost certainly
among them. A civilian economist would
provide the expertise the military
acknowledges it lacks and act as a light-
ning rod for criticism of future policies.
Apparently encouraged by the lack of
resistance to its takeover, the junta is
relaxing some of the more obvious con-
trols. The US embassy reports that
roadblocks are down, airports are
operating normally, and censorship of the
press has been lifted.
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