NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY WEDNESDAY 23 JUNE 1982 - 1982/06/23

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05065984
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 20
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: June 23, 1982

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ARGENTINA: New President
The naming of retired General Reynaldo Bignone as President
was probably accomplished by the Army over the obiections of the
commanders of the Navy and Air Force.
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The Army, in a communique issued yesterday, claims
the armed forces are united behind the decision. Other
reports indicate, however, that although the Navy and the
Air Force intend to remain in the junta, they have with-
drawn from the day-to-day running of the country in pro-
test over Army Commander in Chief Nicolaides's imposition
of his candidate. Army generals who were largely re-
sponsible for former President Galtieri's ouster alsr,
are opposing Bignone. 3.5(c)
Before Bignone retired in December at 53, he served
as Commander of the Military Institutes for one year,
and he held the politically sensitive post of Secretary
General of the Army from 1977 to 1980. The new President
has good relations with political leaders and the press
and favors continued military involvement in the �overn-
ment.
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/' Comment: Senior Army officers have been arguing since
Galtieri's ouster that one of their own should complete the
/3 political reform begun by the Army in 1976. Army leaders
probably believe that by retaining the presidency, the
\ Army will be less vulnerable to recriminations--and possible
Purges�as reaction to the loss of the Falklands spreads.
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The withdrawal by the Navy and the Air Force preserves
the trappings of the junta, enabling the Army to attempt
to overcome the paralysis afflicting the government and
to set new economic and political policies. Any such
gains may be short lived, however, because criticism of
Nicolaides's move by the other services will leave the
regime little room to carry out the new policies.
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Civilians may withhold support because of the selec-
tion process and because of Bignone's identification with
monetarist economic policy. They probably would work
with discontented members of all three services. Second-
echelon grumbling in the Army also could promnt additional
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