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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001800250009-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 19, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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For Release 199 -RDP82-004578001800250
C'" NTRAL IN . ' AGENCY REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY Argentina/USSR
SUBJECT Jose Wenceslao A >2sti A -`" "
Soviet Union
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REPORT NO.
iose Wenceslao Agusti, director of the newspaper Noticias Grafa.casoas
recently naffed Argentine Ambassador to Moscow, has o Bred diplo:!iatj c pcs'w
in the Argentine Embassy in Moscow to three of his closest collaborators cav.k
Noticias Grafi.cas,, The three individuals are Santiago Ganduglia, (fY1u) do
."ImIrnane, ;aird-Tf'nu. Guerra, A,,ustils private secretary. Only the latter t-_.as
:.,geed to go to Moscoaw,.
2., Lguoti has been in frequent contact with Igor Budarin, Soviet Charge
d . 'sires in Buenos Aires. and has held several. conferences with Federico
f;arry tori, former Argentine Ambassador to Moscow. He has also conversed ex-
nensivei.v with anti-Soviet Poles in an effort to obtain a well--roundod Fic-
t?are of the Soviet Union,,
3. Agusti has allegedly shown himself to be very pessimistic concerning his
mission in Moscow and has little hopes of improving Argentine--Soviet
tionsa He does not expect to stay in the USSR more than one year,
Viz. Agustj accepted the position because of his personal am ition to be an pna r-.
25X1 A6a . bassador and because the post was offered to him as a reward for political
services he has rendered the Fsron regime, ( Connnent: Mrs. Pe_ on and.
her friends are believed to control. Noticias (raz'icas Indirectly. }
`IAL In accordance w!tih the
+ext Review Date: 2008
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