TIMERMAN CASE: MILITARY DELIBERATIONS - 1985/09/25

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06626804
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: September 25, 1985

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SUBJECT: (U)TIMERMAN CASE: MILITARY DELIBERATIONS
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1. THE ARGENTINE MILITARY IS CONTINUING A SERIES OF
DISCUSSIONS IN WHICH THE TIMERMAN CASE (AS WELL AS THAT
OF FORMER PRESIDENT HECTOR CAMPORA) ARE PROBABLY CENTRAL
ISSUES. ON SEPTEMBER 24, THE JUNTA HELD AN UNSCHEDULED
MEETING. ON SEPTEMBER 25 THE GENERAL OFFICERS OF EACH
SERVICE ARE GATHERING IN SEPARATE CONFABS PRESIDED OVER
BY EACH SERVICE CHIEF, AND ON SEPTEMBER 26 THE JUNTA IS
SCHEDULED TO RECONVENE.
2. COMMENT: THE DECISION TO RELEASE TIMERMAN -- EVEN
STRIPPED OF HIS CITIZENSHIP AND EXPELLED FROM THE
COUNTRY -- CANNOT BE AN EASY ONE FOR THE MILITARY.
STUBBORN INFLEXIBILITY CAUSED THE MILITARY TO DETAIN
THE
TIMERMAN DESPITE/PAST COURT ORDER AND DESPITE THEIR
UNDERSTANDING THAT HE IS AN INTERNATIONAL CAUSE CELE RE
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OPTIONAL FORM 153
(Formerly FS-419)
January 1975
Dept of State
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BADLY DAMAGING ARGENTINA IN FOREIGN EYES. THERE MAY
BE MILITARY MEN WHO ARE STILL GRASPING FOR A WAY TO
KEEP HIM UNDER LOCK AND KEY. IN THIS REGARD WE NOTE
THAT THE PRESS QUOTES SOURCES STATING THE COURT
FIXED NO DEADLINE FOR TIMERMAN'S RELEASE. WHILE
THIS MAY INDICATE THAT SOME IN THE MILITARY COULD
SEEK TO HOLD TIMERMAN ON THIS EXCUSE., WE BELIEVE
THAT THE ANONYMOUS SPOKESMAN MAY HAVE BEEN TRYING
TO SUGGEST THAT THE ARMED FORCES WERE ACTING
LEGALLY IN TAKING TIME TO DELIBERATE THE SUPREME
COURT'S DECISION.
3. NOTE: WE RECEIVED A TELEPHONE CALL MINUTES AGO
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FROM AN AMERICAN NEWSMAN SAYING HE HAD BEEN TOLD BY
A CONTACT IN THE PRESIDENCY THAT A DECISION ON
TIMERMAN WILL BE MADE PUBLIC TOMORROW SEPTEMBER 26.
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Classification
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OPTIONAL FORM 152a(H)
(Formerly FS-413(H)a)
January 1975
Dept of State