ARGENTINE POLITICAL ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007100070001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 22, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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L, The Argentine Ambassador to Paraguay, Dr. Jose Isaac Arriola, is to be re-
placed by General Isidro Martini, commander of the Argentine military base
of Campo de Mayo. Martini will be named officially as soon as he returns
from vacationing at Mar del Plata. The Perons are politically unsure of
Arriola and feel. that he has failed completely in his diplomatic mission to
Paraguay.
2. According to unofficial gossip in Paraguayan circles in Buenos Aires Dr-.
Arriola is being removed for the following reasons:
a. He was not very successful last year in neutralizing Brazilian
influence in Paraguay.
b. Persons working within the Argentine Embassy in Asuncion have
been reporting adversely on Arriola to the Argentine Xinistry
of Foreign Affairs since about August 1950.
c. Arriola, who reportedly is not a supporter of Peron, invites
to official Embassy functions many anti-Peron Argentines; he
seeks to justify his actions by claiming that the Embassy doors
are open to all Argentines regardless of their political con.
victions.
d. Recent investigations carried out by the Oficina de Control del
Estado (OCE) reveal that Arriola has engaged in some "shady deals~"*
e. In a recent secret session of the Argentine Senate, Senator
Diego 24olinaa.s i, one of Peron's supporters, asked that Arriola
be replaced. On the Senate floor t-Solin ri read charges based on
the OCE report and those emanating from private sources.
3. General Isidro Martini is an intimate of President and Tars. Peron. He is
considered by many political observers to be a shrewd and intelligent
opportunist, and completely subservient to the Peerons.. He owes his present
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