[SANITIZED]EFFORTS OF ARGENTINE ARMY COMMANDER NICOLAIDES TO REACH AN UNDERSTANDING WITH THE MONTONEROS WHICH WOULD PERMIT THE MONTONEROS TO BECOME AN OPEN POLITICAL ORGANIZATION - 1983/09/14

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06702772
• 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 14, 1983

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SUBJ: EFFORTS OF ARGENTINE ARMY
COMMANDER NICOLAIDES TO REACH AN UNDERSTANDING WITH THE
MONTONEROS WHICH WOULD PERMIT THE MONTONEROS TO BECOME AN OPEN
POLITICAL ORGANIZATION
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COUNTRY- ARGRNTINA
SUBJ: EFFORTS OF ARGENTINE ARMY COMMANDER
NICOLAIDES TO REACH AN UNDERSTANDING WITH THE
MONTONEROS WHICH WOULD PERMIT THE MONTONEROS TO
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FORMER RESIDENT ARTURO ((FRONDIZI)) WAS SERVING IN THE
FIRST PART OF AUGUST 1983 AS AN INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN
LIEUTENANT GENERAL (LTG) CRISTINO.((NICOLAIDES)), COMMANDER
OF THE ARMY AND A MEMBER OF THE RULING JUNTA, AND MARIO
((FERMENICH)), THE LEADER OF THE MONTONERO GUERRILLA
MOVEMENT. FRONDIZI'S EFFORTS INVOLVED TRYING TO PERSUADE
FERMENICH TO REACH AN AGREEMENT UNDER WHICH THE GOVERNMENT
WOULD PERMIT THE MONTONERO MOVEMENT TO OPERATE AS A
LEGITIMATE, OPEN POLITICAL ORGANIZATION IN EXCHANGE FOR THE
MONTONEROS NOT RETURNING TO VIOLENCE.
2. UNDER THE AGREEMENT AS VISUALIZED BY NICOLAIDES,
THE GOVERNMENT WOULD FREE 300 IMPRISONED MONTONEROS AND
PERMIT THEM TO REJOIN THE POLITICAL LIFE OF THE COUNTRY.
THE GOVERNMENT WOULD ALSO PERMIT_MONTONEROS LIVING IN
EXILE TO RETURN TO ARGENTINA. COMMENT:
THE 300 MONTONEROS WHOM THE
GOVERNMENT WOULD FREE WOULD FORM THE BASE OF A FUTURE
POLITICAL MOVEMENT.)
3. FERMENICH
LOOKS UPON THE GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSAL FAVORABLY
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HOWEVER, THAT FERNANDO ((VACA NARVAJA))-, THE SECOND-RANKING
LEADER OF THE MONTONEROS, HAS REFUSED TO BECOME A PARTY
TO THE PROPOSED AGREEMENT.
4. COMMENT:
NICOLAIDES HAS SUGGESTED THE ARRANGEMENT
WITH THE MONTONEROS IN ORDER TO GAIN LEFTIST SUPPORT FOR A
PROPOSED AMNESTY LAW THAT THE ARMED FORCES HAVE HAD UNDER
CONSIDERATION AND HAVE DEBATED 'OVER THE PAST WEEKS, A LAW
WHICH WOULD BENEFIT INDIVIDUALS WHO FOUGHT AGAINST THE
MONTONEROS AND OTHER LEFTISTS DURING THE'ANTISUBVERSIVE
CAMPAIGN OF THE 19709. A PRECEDENT EXISTS FOR THE
ARRANGEMENT SUGGESTED BY NICOLAIDES IN A SIMILAR AGREEMENT
REACHED BY THE ADMINISTRATION OF HECTOR ((CAMPORA)) AND
THE LEFT IN 1973.)
5. COMMENT: ALTHOUGH THIS REPDTRORT SEEMS
SOMEWHAT FARFETCHED IN LIGHT OF THE ARMY'S STRONG ANTI-
MONTONERO FEELINGS, IT MAY BE THAT NICOLAIDES IS TRYING
TO DEVELOP A JUSTIFICATION FOR RELEASING THE PRISONERS
AS MANY IN THE ARMED FORCES ARE RELUCTANT TO HAVE THEM ON
THE STREET.)
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