NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN JANUARY 25, 1975[SANITIZED] - 1975/01/25

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06627109
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: January 25, 1975

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National Intelligence Bulletin
January 25, 1975
CONTENTS
ARGENTINA: Government-sponsored, right-wing group at-
tacks newspaper plant in Cordoba. (Page 14)
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ARGENTINA
The destruction by government-sponsored, right-
wing terrorists of a plant housing one of Argentina's
oldest newspapers is certain to compound President
Peron's difficulties in dealing with the opposition
parties.
The at;tack against a moderate newspaper in the in-
terior city of Cordoba was carried out by the extreme
right-wing terrorist Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance,
apparently because of the paper's recent criticism of
the government-appointed administrator of Cordoba
Province, retired General Raul Lacabanne. Lacabanne
has waged a harsh campaign against leftists in Cordoba
since he assumed the post last September, and he prob-
ably has close connections with the illegal operations
of the terrorist squads.
In addition, Lacabanne is a close collaborator of
the powerful chief of the presidential secretariat, Jose
Lopez Rega, who has also had a major hand in directing
right-wing paramilitary operations. Lopez Rega, who
has been conducting government business while Mrs. Peron
is resting outside of Buenos Aires, is in a vital posi-
tion to oversee security matters and may have given the
orders for the Cordoba operation.
Opposition political parties have become increas-
ingly vocal in opposing Lopez Rega's pre-eminent role,
official complicity in right-wing terrorism, and
Peronist stromj-arm tactics in the provinces. They
fear that tie government might attempt to intimidate
them in similar fashion. '
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