WITNESSES FOR FRASER SUB-COMMITTEE - 1976/10/02

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03270119
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: October 2, 1976

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TAGS: CVIS, SHUM, PFOR, AR, US
SUBJECT: WITNESSES FOR FRASER SUB-COMMITTEE
PER: (A) STATE 235506, (B) STATE 239312, (C) BUENOS AIRES 6396
1, FOR MANY MONTHS THIS EMBASSY HAS BEEN PRESSING GOA ON THE
SUBJECT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, ONE OF THE MAJOR OBSTACLES THAT WE
HAVE FACED IS A SIEGE MENTALITY ON THE PART OF THE ARGENTINE
MILITARY N.E. THE CONVICTION THAT THEY ARE LOCKED IN A NO-HOLDS-
BARRED STRUGGLE WITH INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM) AND THE CONCOMITANT
BELIEF THAT CRITICISM FROM ABROAD ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE
REFLECTS OR IS STIMULATED BY THE COMMUNISTS. WE HAVE WORKED
DILIGENTLY TO DISABUSE THE GOVT HERE OF SUCH A SIMPLISTIC VIEW,
WE HAVE INSISTED THAT THERE ARE SERIOUS, RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE IN
THE US WHO HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE EXTREME LEFT AND WHO ARE
CONCERNED OVER ISSUE OF HUMAN RIGHTS,
2. OUR EFFORTS IN THIS REGARD ARE NOT HELPED AT ALL BY THE FACT
THAT OF THE FI VE WITNESSES CALLED BY THE FRASER SUB-COMMITTEE
AND REFERRED TO IN REFS A AND B (RODoLF0 PuIGGROS� JUAN GELMAN,
GUSTAVO ROCA, LUCI 0 GARZON mACEDO AND ROBERTO PIZARRO) , THE
FIRST FOUR ARE ALL MEMBERS OR EX-MEMBERS OF THE ARGENT INE
COMMUNIST PARTY (PCA) OR OF THE ERP. ARE THESE OBJECTIVE
WITNESSES? AT LEAST ONE OF THESE PEOPLE REPRESENTS GROUP
THAT HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR HUNDREDS orF MURDERS AND KID-
NAPPINGS OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS. HOW ARE WE Now To ARGUE
TO GOA THAT CRITICISM IN US DOES NOT IN ANY WAY REFLECT MANI-
PULATION OF EXTREME LEFT? TH IS 'K IND OF PERFORMANCE DOES NOT
ADVANCE, ON CONTRARY, IT IS DETRIMENTAL To CAUSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS
IN ARGENTINA.
3. TO HELP US ARGUE A CREDITABLE CASE TO GOA, EMBASSY WOULD
APPRECIATE ANY LIGHT DEPT CAN SHED RE CRITERIA USED BY SUB-
'COMMITTEE IN CALLING WITNESSES. HILL
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