ACTIVITIES OF THE ARGENTINE DIPLOMATIC CORPS IN CHILE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002700290002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 18, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
114FORMAT9014 REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Chile/Argentina
SUBJECT Activities of the Argentine Diplomatic Corps
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF INF
25X1A6a
to Nestor Lima Quintana, the Cultural Attache to the Argentine Embassy in
Santiago, is reported to have. stated categorically that retired Chilean
General Jorge Bergnno Menses had requested financial aid from Peron prior
to the abortive military conspiracy discovered in Chile during November
1948,D* Peron avoided supplying any funds directly, but according to
source, arranged for Berguno Meneses to make some highly successful busi-
ness deals in Argentina with. the understanding that the proceeds were to
be used for the proposed revolutionary movement in Chile. When the plot
was discovered by the Chilean police,'Berguno 169neses decided to keep this
money for himself, and he is allegedly living very tranquilly in Buenos
Aires at the present-time.
2. Lima Quintana also stated that a group of unidentified members of the
re-
Agrarian Labor Party recently visited him at the Argentine Embassy and
quested two million Chilean pesos for the founding of a new newspaper
which they claimed would dedicate itself to opposing the present Chilean
government. It was proposed that the paper carry out, a pro-Argentine
propaganda campaign at the same time. Lima Quintana stated that the
Argentine Embassy refused to advance this money.
3. Lima Quintana reported that he had received instructions to return for
Buenos Aires to present a verbal account of the activities of the Argentine
diplomatic corps in Chile, especially those of Ambassador Julio Argentine
Lopez Muniz. As was previously reported,, Lima Quintana submitted a report
harshly criticizing Lopez Muniz and his failure to carry out the diplomatic
mission assigned to him in Chile.
* Cf.
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