[SANITIZED]NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN APRIL 10, 1976 - 1976/04/10

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02996437
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 21
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: April 10, 1976

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National Intelligence Bulletin
April 10,1976
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ARGENTINA: Mounting political
violence troublesome for junta
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National Intelligence Bulletin
April 10, 1976
ARGENTINA
Mounting political violence is emerging as a major headache for President
Videla's new government.
Dozens of people have died in clashes between forces of the left and the right
since the military take-over on March 24. Urban guerrillas are attacking police and
security officials, while rightists are mounting a campaign of reprisals that so far has
taken over 20 lives.
In dealing with the renewed warfare, the junta must walk a fine line between
seeming to carry out Videla's pledge to keep the antiterrorist campaign within legal
bounds and doing what is necessary to suppress the violence.
The activities of the right-wing vigilante groups are particularly troublesome for
the junta. It was widely believed that such actions were condoned, or perhaps even
inspired, by the Peron administration. The junta can ill afford to acquire the same
reputation. Indeed, there is no indication that it has given even tacit approval to the
killings of leftists by off-duty police and security officials.
Even so, the exploits of vigilante groups could quickly dissipate the relative
good will the public has shown the military government. The junta is aware that it
needs all the sympathy it can muster at home and abroad to proceed successfully in
critical areas like the economy.
Military advocates of harsh repression view the continuation of left-wing
violence as an argument in favor of the tough measures they have proposed all along.
The left hopes to provoke precisely such repression, in the belief that the even ual
result would be popular repudiation of the military government.
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