EFFORT BY A MEMBER OF THE ARGENTINE MONTONEROS TO OBTAIN INTRODUCTIONS TO UNITED STATES CONGRESSMEN - 1978/02/23

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05021563
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: February 23, 1978

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
2 3 FEB 1978
WARNING NOTICE
SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Terence A. Todman
Assistant Secretary of State
for Inter-American Affairs
Mr. Harold H. Saunders
The Director of Intelligence and Research
Mr. Robert Pastor
Senior Staff Member
National Security Council
FROM John McMahon
Deputy Director for Operations
Effort by a Member of the Argentine
Montoneros to Obtain Introductions to
United States Congressmen
SUBJECT
3.5(3.5(c)
3.3(b)(1)
2. In late January or early February 1978 Ricardo Obregon
Cano, a member of the Montoneros, an Argentine terrorist
organization, met with 3.3(b)(1)
political leader in exile, at an unspecified location in the
United States. Obregon's purpose was to request 3.3(b)(1)
advice and obtain from him introductions to members of the .
United States Congress in order to present cases of human rights
violations in Argentina. alleQedlv assured Obregon thal3.3(b)(1)
he had direct contact with who would be
pleased to meet With him.
3.5(c)
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WARNING NOTICE
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3. Comment: The fact that U.S.
Senators and Congressmen quite frequently accept visits by
exiled politicians of all stripes and that the usual procedure
is to give them a short hearing and certain reassurances with-
out making any commitments is not generally understood here,
and we can expect that Uruguayan military leaders will interpret
the above as further evidence of U.S. duplicity or complicity
with exiled political personalities to the detriment of
Uruguay. The importance of the above information is that it
provides the Embassy with advance notice of yet another
irrelevant issue that will nevertheless rankle some members
of the Government of Uruguay and will require the Embassy to
explain the nature of how U.S. Senators and Congressmen go
about doing their business. �We cannot predict what problems,
if any, the idea of a senior U.S. Senator discussing human
rights cases with a member of a terrorist organization will
cause here.)
4. The above information has been made available to
the U.S. Ambassadors in Montevideo and Buenos Aires and to
the Senate and House Select Committees on Intelligence.
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�Zolan H. SteiLl
John McMahon
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