[SANITIZED]NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1976 - 1976/09/02

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02991089
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: September 2, 1976

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1976
VOLUME 3, NUMBER 207
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4 THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1976
TCS 632/76 THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY
WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Argentina: Violence Criticized
Leading Argentines are becoming in-
creasingly outspoken in condemning
right-wing abuses of the government's
anti-terrorist campaign.
The US embassy reports that it is hear-
ing criticism from a wide range of
political figures, churchmen, journalists,
and even civil servants. Many were con-
tent to see the military come to power in
March but are now distressed at right-
wing violence.
They are alarmed that the government
still has not accounted for a large
number of prisoners, and the recent up-
surge in indiscriminate killings has con-
vinced many that they have more to fear
from the right than from leftist guerrillas.
Despite expressions of concern in many
circles, there is no organized campaign
being mounted against the government,
and expressions of criticism have been
cautious.
The leader of the country's second
largest political party recently signed a
declaration that condemned the dis-
appearance of two leading members of the
party but only indirectly indicated the
party's belief that the security forces were
responsible. Both have since been released,
according to a communique.
The church is said to be convinced
that security officials were responsible
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for the recent deaths of five priests al-
leged to be leftists and is less inclined to
be conciliatory toward the junta than
before the papal nuncio strongly pro-
tested the killings.
President Videla may be trying to cur-
tail abuses. Rumored military
reassignments, for example, would shift
two so-called "hard-liners" out of their
troop command positions. Moreover, a
presidential spokesman last week assured
the US embassy that the perpetrators of
the murder of 30 alleged leftists the
weekend before would be punished.
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