RESPONSIBILITY OF ARGENTINE FEDERAL PENITENTIARY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (SIP) FOR KIDNAPPING OF GONZALEZ FAMILY - 1979/09/20

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06701440
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: September 20, 1979

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SUBJECT: RESPONSIBILITY OF ARGENTINE FEDERAL PENITENTIARY
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HIS NIFE AND THREE SMALL CHILDREN HAD DISAPPEARED. THE WIFE
AND CHILDREN WERE TAKEN AWAY FROM THEIR RESIDENCE BY PERSONS
CLAIMING TO BE POLICE.)
2. AGENTS OF THE ARGENTINE FEDERAL PENITENTIARY
INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (SIP - SERvICIO DE INFORmACIONES DEL
SERVICIO PENITENCIAR,10 FEDERAL) PICKED UP THE GONZALEZ FAMILY.
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FNUip CHIEF OF SIP. THE ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT IS FURIOUS WITH
SILVA WHO COMMITTED A GRAVE ERROR BY KIDNAPPING THE FAMILY,
ESPECIALLY AT THE TIME OF THE INTER�AMERICAN HUMAN RIGHTS
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COMMISSION (IAHRC) VISIT TO ARGENTINA, SILVA'S ACTION IS
AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THE GOVERNMENT WHICH AT THIS POINT DOES
NOT KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THE PROBLEM,
3, COMMENT: THE SIP IS A SMALL INTELLIGENCE
GROUP WHICH IS FNOWN FOR ITS COMPETENCE. IT IS NOT KNOWN
WHY SIP PICKED UP THE GONZALEZTAMILY NOR WHERE THE FAMILY
/S BEING HELD. MOST OF THE SECURITY SERVICES INVOLVED IN
THE HUNT FOR THE GONZALEZ FAMILY ARE PROBABLY AWARE THAT /T
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