FEDERAL POLICE INVESTIGATION OF THE DEATH OF ELENA HOLMBERG - 1979/01/18

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06701365
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: January 18, 1979

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COUNTRY: ARGENTINA
SUBJECT: FEDERAL POLICE INVESTIGATION OF THE DEATH of
ELENA HOLHBERG
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COMMENT: ELENA HOLHBERG. AN ARGENTINE
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FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIAL WHO RECENTLY RETURNED FROM FRANCE
aPERE SHE WORKED IN THE CULTURAL AFFAIRS SECTION OF THE
ARGENTINE EmBASSY, WAS KIDNAPPED ON 20 DECEwSER 197. Ow
11 JANUARY 1979, A Dopy REPORTED AS BEING Ts&T OF pipooBERG
AAS RECOVERED FROM THE LUJAN RIVER. THE PRESS REPORTED THAT
AUTOPSIES PERFORMED ON THE BODY ESTABLISHED THAT DEATH HAD
OCCURRED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF HER ABDUCTION. HOLMBERG WAS A
NIECE OF FORMER PRESIDENT ALEJANDR0 LANUS $ E. HER BODY
LAT IN STATE IN THE FOREIGN MINISTRY PRIOR TO BURIAL AND THE
CASE HAS RECEIVED NIDESPREAD PUBLICITY. 3.3(b)(1)
MOTEL 0936, 1854660 DATED 16 JANUARY 1979, FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS.)
2. JUDGE EDUARDO FRANCISCO MARQUARDT ORDERED
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A SECOND AUTOPSY PERFORMED ON THE EIVA ALLEGED TO BE HOLmBERG'S
BECAUSE HE KA$ NOT SATISFIED mITH PROOF OF IDENTITY RESULTING
FROM THE FIRST AUTOPSY.
EVIDENCE OF NOLPISENG'S IDEAT/Ty
IS ALSO DUBIOUS AND
THE RESULTS AS FINAL EVIDENCE.
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PRODUCED BY THE SECOND AUTOPSY
JUDGE vAnuARDT ACCEPTED
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THE POLICE ARE
CONTINUING THE INVESTIGATION.
THERE ARE THREE THEORIES:
A. THE STATE SECRETARIAT FOR INTELLIGENCE (SIDE) KILLED
HoLmBERG BECAUSE 0HILE IN PARIS HOLmBERG IRAS IN TOUCH NITm
SUBVERSIVES.
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RESPONSIBLE, HOLmBERG ROULD HAVE BEEN 1,11.0 FOR EXTENDED INTER-
ROGATIO4 AND KOULD NOT HAVE BEEN KILLED KITHIN as HOURS.
B. SUBVERSIVES KIDNAPPED AND KILLED HOL06ERG.
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LIKELY SINCE 1HE SUBVERSIVE ORGANIZATIONS
HAVE A LIMITED CURRENT CAPABILITY FOR THAT TYPE OF OPERATION.
ALSO, THEY NDRmALLY TAKE CREDIT FOR THE DISPOSAL OF THEIR
VICTIMS AND USUALLY RESPORT TO SHOOTING OR BOMBING ATTACKS,
C. THE NAVY KILLED HOLmBERG BECAUSE .0.ILE IN PIS SHE
DISCOVERED THAT ADMIRAL EmILIO MAssERA, FORmER
COMmANDER�IN-CHIEF OF THE NAVY. HAD 'ET KITH mONTONEROS DURING
A TRIP TO FRANCE AND THAT SHE, HAD F0KKANDED THIS INFORMATION
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