NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY MONDAY 10 DECEMBER 1979 - 1979/12/10

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05071460
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 28
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: December 10, 1979

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ARGENTINA: Defeat of Hardliners
Recent changes in the Argentine Army hierarchy represent a
stunning victory by the moderates--President Videla and Army
commander Viola--over military hardliners and appear to clear the
way for Viola to succeed Videla as president in March 1981.
The most important changes that took place as part
of the annual retirement and promotion cycle are the
elevation of moderate Viola supporter Major General
Galtieri to succeed Viola as Army commander, and the
forced retirement of hardline Army Chief of Staff Major
General Suarez-Mason. 3.5(c)
Suarez-Mason and Major General Menendez--who was
sacked for leading a revolt against Viola in late Sep- '
tember--were two of the government's principal hardline
antagonists. Major General Riveros, a representative
to the Inter-American Defense Board, will also be forced
into retirement.
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Viola's own impending retirement from the military
necessitated a number of other changes that will bring
Viola loyalists into the Army's top jobs. - Until he
becomes president, Viola plans to seek international
recognition--which he hopes will confer greater legiti-
macy on his government--and to lay the groundwork for a
return to civilian rule. Continued hardline opposition
in the Army leadership would have threatened these plans
and might even have prevented Viola's selection as pres-
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