VERBAL ORDER BY CHIEF OF FEDERAL POLICE NOT TO MAKE ILLEGAL ARRESTS AND EFFORTS BY PRESIDENT JORGE RAFAEL VIDELA TO CURB EXCESSES IN COUNTERSUBVERSION PROGRAM. - 1977/12/09

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06701430
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: December 9, 1977

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SUBJECT: VERBAL ORDER BY CHIEF OF FEDERAL POLICE NOT TO HAKE
ILLEGAL ARRESTS AND EFFORTS BY PRESIDENT JORGE RAFAEL
v/DELA TO CURB EXCESSES IN COuNTERSUBVERSION PROGRAM.
2. GENERAL EDMUNDO RENE OJEDA. CHIEF OF THE
FEDERAL POLICE, HAS ISSUED A VERBAL ORDER THAT THERE ARE TO
BEND ILLEGAL ARRESTS. THOSE ARRESTED ARE TO BE TURNED OVER
TO THE COURTS OR PLACED AT THE DISPOSITION OF THE NATIONAL
EXECUTIVE POWER (PEN); IN NO CASE 13 THE PRISONER TO
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'DISAPPEAR. � IN ALL CASES THE ARREST IS TO BE MADE KNOWN AND
NO ONE IS TO BE HELD INCOMMUNICADO. EXCEPT IN now CASES WHERE
EXISTING LAP/ PERMITS THE HOLDING OF A PRISONER INCOMMUNICADO..
THE ORDER WAS NOT PUT IN WRITING BECAUSE TO DO SO WOULD MEAN
ADMITTING THAT THE POLICE HAVE NOT ALWAYS COMPLIED WITH EXISTING
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COMMENT:
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THIS ORDER. WHICH REPRESENTS A CHANGE IN POLICE PROCEDURES.
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COMMENT:
NO SIMILAR ORDER HAS BEEN GIVEN 10 THE
BUENOS AIRES PROVINCIAL POLICE.)
S. PRESIDENT JORGE RAFAEL VIDELA HAS TAKEN STEPS TO
ELIMINATE EXCESSES IN THE COUNTERSUBVERSIOW PROGRAM. FOR EXAMPLE.
ALTHOUGH COLONEL RAMoN CAmPS. CHIEF OF THE BUENOS AIRES
PROVINCIAL POLICE. AS PROMOTED IO GENERAL. HE WAS NOT APPOINTED
CHIEF 01 THE FEDERAL POLICE AS HAD BEEN EXPECTED. HIS TRANSFFR
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TO THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF. A POSITION USUALLY CONSIDERED AS
A DEAD-END IN A MILITARY CAREER. IS A DIRECT EXAMPLE OF V/DELA'S
EFFORTS TO CURB EXCESSES IN THE COUNTERSUBVERSION PROGRAM.
VIDELA ALSO ARRANGED TO HAVE COLONEL ROBERTO ROUALDE S.
CHIEF OF COUNTERSUBVERSIVE ACTION FOR THE FIRST ARMY CORPS. TO
BE TRANSFERRED FROM THE FIRST ARMY CORPS AND HAS TRANSFERRED
SEVERAL CAPTAINS OUT OF THE FIRST ARMY CORPS BECAUSE OF THEIR
INVOLVEMENT IN EXCESSES. I COMMENT:
SPECIFIC AS TO HON MANY CAPTAINS HAD BEEN TRANSFERRED.
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