ARG 54 SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS OF A SPECIAL COORDINATION COMMITTEE MEETING - 1980/01/22

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Keywords: 1977-1980
• Keywords: ARGENTINA
• Keywords: FRUS
• Keywords: SOUTH AMERICA
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06592926
• 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 22, 1980

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SPECIAL COORDINATION COMMITTEE MEETING
Time and Place: 9:00 -
Subject:
Participants:
January 22, 1980
9:45 a.m., White House Situation Room
State
Deputy Secretary Christopher
David Newsom
Harold Saunders
Defense
Secretary Harold Brown
Graham Claytor
CIA
Admiral Turner
Frank Carlucci
JCS
General David Jones
Lt. General John Pustay
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Vice President's Office
Denis Clift
White House
David Aaron
Hedley Donovan
Hamilton Jordan (briefly)
Lloyd Cutler
NSC
William Odom
Gary Sick
Thomas Thornton
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7. Argentina. General Goodpaster has agreed to, go to
Argentina tonight:4- He will have a heavy series of briefings at V�
State and the White House today. Mr. Claytor said that a finding
that Argentina had made substantial progress on human rights (in
connection with the Kennedy Amendment) would be extremely helpful.
Others noted that, the Kennedy Amendment merely established a
deadline (October 1, 1978) for Argentinian performance on human
rights but indicated no relief for subsequent improvement. Mr.
Newsom noted that this amendment would be much harder to lift than
the Symington Amendment on Pakistan. The Argentinian record is
still very bad, and the Inter-American Human Rights Commission report
which is coming out soon will be extremely derogatory. Mr. Aaron
said that General Goodpaster must have something to encourage the
Argentines to be helpful. The instructions for his trip are bein
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drafted and will be reviewed this afternoOliN State will take a TIC:F1r
look at the legislation. We are prepared to be helpful to Argentina
with respect to the UN Human Rights Commissiciff:N 3._5(c)
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