TIMERMAN RELEASE SPECULATED IN PRESS - 1979/06/25

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06626836
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: June 25, 1979

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1. (U) The Sunday morning (June 24) Conviccion speculated
that the Jacobo Timerman case might soon be resolved and
Timerman released, due in part to strong international
pressures. The article, which was widely quoted in
other papers June 25, credited "firmly held conflicting
opinions among different power factions over time" for
the long delay in the Timerman case and noted that two
commanders-in-chief had concerned themselves with the
case.
2. (U) Conviccion (which has a strong "Navy orienta-
tion") speculated that Timerman's release would depend
on his agreeing to three conditions: to travel directly
to Israel, not to write or speak out against Argentina
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For its government, and not to assume the Latin
American editorship of the New York Times in Israel.
The actual decision, said Conviccion, would probably
be based on whether his release abroad would be
preferable to his present detention and image as
the "martyr of democracy". Even if Timerman refuses
the three conditions, it is believed that his release
would be a positive solution, according to the paper.
3. (C) Mrs. Rische Timerman recently provided the
Ambassador with four drafts of a letter which was
finally sent by her husband to the Junta on June 11.
(See Ref.) The final text dropped all earlier refer-
ences to Timerman's non-PEN status (and consequently
his inability to leave the country under the right
of option program) and simply appealed to the Junta
for authorization to leave the country and settle
definitively in Israel.
4. (U) Certain Buenos Aires newspapers have main-
tained continuous attention on the Timerman case,
editorializing on the unfairness of his continued
detention without charge and questioning the Supreme
Court's recent rejection of his habeas corpus petition.
The local press reported June 20 that Timerman's
son Hector discussed his father's case with Senators
L Church, Zorinsky, Sarbanes, McGovern, Pell and Javits
during a recent trip to the US to accept B'nai B'rith
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