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Reconocimiento Optico de Caracteres (OCR)
Department of State
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PH-04 . H-02 INR-07 L-03 NSAE-00 NSC-OS PA-01 PRS-Ol
SP-02 SS-15 SCCT-01 NSCE-00 SSO-00 USIE-00 INRE^OO
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O R 131431Z JUN 76 CORRECTED COPY FOR MCN ARGENTINA PROJECT (S200000O44)
FM AMEH8ASSY BUENOS AIRES
TO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 6011
INFO AMEM8ASSY ASUNCION
AMEMBASSY MONTEVIDEO
AMENBASSY .SANTIAGO
USUN NEW YORK 630
BUENOS AIRES 391B
US. DEPT. OF STATE, A/RPS/IPS
Maigaiet P. Grafeld, Director
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( )Classifyas_ ( )Extenoas_ (
Date________Dedassifyon.
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.Reason.
E.O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: PFOR, SHUM, AR, .
SUBJECT: ABDUCTION OF CHILEAN REFUGEES
REF: STATE 14391**
1. ALL TWENTY-FIVE REFUGEES WERE RELEASED JUNE 12. ALL WERE
CHILEAN?WITH EXCEPTION OF. PROPRIETOR OF ONE OF THE HOTELS WHO WAS
PARGUAYAN AND APPARENTLY WAS TAKEN* ALONG BECAUSE HE PROTESTED TOO
LOUDLY RAID ON HIS ESTABLISHMENT.
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2. REFUGEES HAVE CONFIRMED THAT THEY HERE TAKEN AHAY IN USUAL
UNMARKED FORD FALCONS AFTER SOME THIRTY-FIVE TO FIFTY GUNMEN HAD
RAIOED TWO HOTELS WHERE REFUGEES WERE HOUSED UNDER AUSPICE' uF UN.
RAID REPORTED 8Y PRESS TO HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT IN BRUTAL MANNER,
WITH FAMILIES HANDLED VERY ROUGHLY. ACCORDING TO REFUGEES, GUNMEN
IDENTIFIED THEMSELVES AS REPRESENTING -SUPERINTENDENCY OF ARMY
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UNCLASSIFIED
UKCUSSIFIED
POLICE.- CI I* FACT, SO FAR AS WE KNOW, NO SUCH ORGANIZATION EXISTS
IN ARMY). TWENTY-FIVE MALE REFUGEES, INCLUDING SEVERAL WHO WERE
ILL, WERE BLINDFOLDED AND TAKEN TO- WHAT THEY BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN
A BARRACKS, WHERE THEY WERE BEATEN, TORTURED WITH ELECTRIC PRODS
AND WARNED TO GET OUR OF ARGENTINA. ALL WERE THEN RELEASED.
3. UN REP GUY PRIM TOLD EMBOFF LAST NIGHT THAT THE TWENTY-FIVE
WERE THREATENED WITH DEATH IF THEY TALKED TOO MUCH ABOUT THEIR
ORDEAL. SEVERAL ARE IN BAD SHAPE PHYSICALLY, ALL ARE NATURALLY
EXTREMELY FRIGHTENED, ACCORDING TO PRIM, AND WANT TO LEAVE
ARGENTINA AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. PRIM INDICATED UN REFUGEE OFFICE
-HERE IS IN CONTACT WITH GENEVA AND IS TRYING TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MOVE THEM TO OTHER COUNTRIES. HE HINTED THAT UN WOULD BE
OELIGHTED IF US WOULD ACCEPT A FEW.
M. GOA HAS NOT YET ISSUED ANY STATEMENTS ON ITS OWN REGARDING
ABDUCTION; RATHER, IT HA? RESPOUNDED TO UN REFUGEE OFFICE WHICH HAS
IN TURN PASSED ON RESPONSES TO PRESS. ACCOROING TO UN REPS, WHEN
THEY CALLED TO REPORT THE RAID AND MASS KIDNAPPING ANO TO ASK GOA
TO TAKE IMMEDIATE MEASURES TO ASSURE SAFE RETURN, GOA OFFICIALS
EXPRESSED SHOCK, DEPLORED ACT AND GAVE ASSURANCES THAT MEASURES WOULD
BE TAKEN TQ FIND AND RETURN TjkZ TWENTY-FIVE AND TO PROTECT OTHER
REFUGEES. IK FACT, POLICEMEN WERE IMMEDIATELY PLACED ON GUARD
DUTY QUTSIOE ALL HOTELS HOUSING REFUGEES.
5. IN SUBSEQUENT COMMUNICATION (JUNE 12) TO UN REPS HERE, GOA AGAIN
DEPLORED ACT AND STATED OPERATION HAO NOT BEEN CARRIED OUT BY POLICE
OR MILITARY UNITS, CNOTE: ORIGINAL WORDING SAID IT HAD NOT BEEN
CARRIED OUT BY "IRREGULAR POLICE OR MILITARY UNITS" .-- THUS LEAVING
QUESTION AS TO WHETHER IT HAD BEEN CARRIED OUT BY "REGULAR" UNITS.
GOA QUICKLY CHANGED WORDING TO REFER TO ALL UNITS.
6. UN REFUGEE OFFICE HERE HAS COMMENTED TO US THAT THEY ARE SATIS-
FIED SO FAR WITH GOA RESPONSE IN THIS MATTER. MANY OBSERVERS,
HOWEVER, ARE ASKING THEHSELVES WHETHER IT IS CREDIBLE THAT THIRTY-
FIVE TO FIRTY ARMED MEN COULD WITH IMPUNITY RAID AND CONDUCT A
LENGTHY SEARCH (GUNMEN WERE AT HOTELS FOR OVER HALF AN HOUR) OF
TWO HOTELS UNLESS THEY ENJOYED COOPERATION AND SUPPORT FROM ELEMENTS
WITHIN GOA SECURITY FORCES?
7. CHARGE* WILL SEE AMBASSADOR PEREYRA. DIRECTOR GENERAL OF
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POLICY AT FOREIGN MINISTRY, JUNE m AND MILL RAISE MATTER MITH HIM,
EXPRESSING USG'S CONCERN FOR SAFETY OF REFUGEES rtERE. CHAPLIN
HUSH)
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TELEGRAM
AN: 0760229-0383
PAGE 01 BUENOS 03918 141B39Z
43/14
ACTION ARA-10
INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 10-13 OHA-02 ORM-02 CIAE-00 DODE-00
PH-04 . H-02 INR-07 L-03 NSAE-00 NSC-OS PA-01 PRS-Ol
SP-02 SS-15 SCCT-01 NSCE-00 SSO-00 USIE-00 INRE^OO
/069 W
-------------------- 063619
O R 131431Z JUN 76 CORRECTED COPY FOR MCN ARGENTINA PROJECT (S200000O44)
FM AMEH8ASSY BUENOS AIRES
TO SECSTATE WASHDC NIACT IMMEDIATE 6011
INFO AMEM8ASSY ASUNCION
AMEMBASSY MONTEVIDEO
AMENBASSY .SANTIAGO
USUN NEW YORK 630
BUENOS AIRES 391B
US. DEPT. OF STATE, A/RPS/IPS
Maigaiet P. Grafeld, Director
(^Release ( )Excise ( )Deny
Fx<»mprir>n(s'>:___________i-----------_-------------------------
rtorinnHy- f )InPart OQta ft*W£c**""*c*"
( )Classifyas_ ( )Extenoas_ (
Date________Dedassifyon.
) Downgrade to__
.Reason.
E.O. 11652: N/A
TAGS: PFOR, SHUM, AR, .
SUBJECT: ABDUCTION OF CHILEAN REFUGEES
REF: STATE 14391**
1. ALL TWENTY-FIVE REFUGEES WERE RELEASED JUNE 12. ALL WERE
CHILEAN?WITH EXCEPTION OF. PROPRIETOR OF ONE OF THE HOTELS WHO WAS
PARGUAYAN AND APPARENTLY WAS TAKEN* ALONG BECAUSE HE PROTESTED TOO
LOUDLY RAID ON HIS ESTABLISHMENT.
t
2. REFUGEES HAVE CONFIRMED THAT THEY HERE TAKEN AHAY IN USUAL
UNMARKED FORD FALCONS AFTER SOME THIRTY-FIVE TO FIFTY GUNMEN HAD
RAIOED TWO HOTELS WHERE REFUGEES WERE HOUSED UNDER AUSPICE' uF UN.
RAID REPORTED 8Y PRESS TO HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT IN BRUTAL MANNER,
WITH FAMILIES HANDLED VERY ROUGHLY. ACCORDING TO REFUGEES, GUNMEN
IDENTIFIED THEMSELVES AS REPRESENTING -SUPERINTENDENCY OF ARMY
PAGE 02 BUENOS 03918 1416392
UNCLASSIFIED
UKCUSSIFIED
POLICE.- CI I* FACT, SO FAR AS WE KNOW, NO SUCH ORGANIZATION EXISTS
IN ARMY). TWENTY-FIVE MALE REFUGEES, INCLUDING SEVERAL WHO WERE
ILL, WERE BLINDFOLDED AND TAKEN TO- WHAT THEY BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN
A BARRACKS, WHERE THEY WERE BEATEN, TORTURED WITH ELECTRIC PRODS
AND WARNED TO GET OUR OF ARGENTINA. ALL WERE THEN RELEASED.
3. UN REP GUY PRIM TOLD EMBOFF LAST NIGHT THAT THE TWENTY-FIVE
WERE THREATENED WITH DEATH IF THEY TALKED TOO MUCH ABOUT THEIR
ORDEAL. SEVERAL ARE IN BAD SHAPE PHYSICALLY, ALL ARE NATURALLY
EXTREMELY FRIGHTENED, ACCORDING TO PRIM, AND WANT TO LEAVE
ARGENTINA AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. PRIM INDICATED UN REFUGEE OFFICE
-HERE IS IN CONTACT WITH GENEVA AND IS TRYING TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MOVE THEM TO OTHER COUNTRIES. HE HINTED THAT UN WOULD BE
OELIGHTED IF US WOULD ACCEPT A FEW.
M. GOA HAS NOT YET ISSUED ANY STATEMENTS ON ITS OWN REGARDING
ABDUCTION; RATHER, IT HA? RESPOUNDED TO UN REFUGEE OFFICE WHICH HAS
IN TURN PASSED ON RESPONSES TO PRESS. ACCOROING TO UN REPS, WHEN
THEY CALLED TO REPORT THE RAID AND MASS KIDNAPPING ANO TO ASK GOA
TO TAKE IMMEDIATE MEASURES TO ASSURE SAFE RETURN, GOA OFFICIALS
EXPRESSED SHOCK, DEPLORED ACT AND GAVE ASSURANCES THAT MEASURES WOULD
BE TAKEN TQ FIND AND RETURN TjkZ TWENTY-FIVE AND TO PROTECT OTHER
REFUGEES. IK FACT, POLICEMEN WERE IMMEDIATELY PLACED ON GUARD
DUTY QUTSIOE ALL HOTELS HOUSING REFUGEES.
5. IN SUBSEQUENT COMMUNICATION (JUNE 12) TO UN REPS HERE, GOA AGAIN
DEPLORED ACT AND STATED OPERATION HAO NOT BEEN CARRIED OUT BY POLICE
OR MILITARY UNITS, CNOTE: ORIGINAL WORDING SAID IT HAD NOT BEEN
CARRIED OUT BY "IRREGULAR POLICE OR MILITARY UNITS" .-- THUS LEAVING
QUESTION AS TO WHETHER IT HAD BEEN CARRIED OUT BY "REGULAR" UNITS.
GOA QUICKLY CHANGED WORDING TO REFER TO ALL UNITS.
6. UN REFUGEE OFFICE HERE HAS COMMENTED TO US THAT THEY ARE SATIS-
FIED SO FAR WITH GOA RESPONSE IN THIS MATTER. MANY OBSERVERS,
HOWEVER, ARE ASKING THEHSELVES WHETHER IT IS CREDIBLE THAT THIRTY-
FIVE TO FIRTY ARMED MEN COULD WITH IMPUNITY RAID AND CONDUCT A
LENGTHY SEARCH (GUNMEN WERE AT HOTELS FOR OVER HALF AN HOUR) OF
TWO HOTELS UNLESS THEY ENJOYED COOPERATION AND SUPPORT FROM ELEMENTS
WITHIN GOA SECURITY FORCES?
7. CHARGE* WILL SEE AMBASSADOR PEREYRA. DIRECTOR GENERAL OF
PAGE 03 BUENOS 0391B mi839Z
IILIKIFO
H
wtssra
POLICY AT FOREIGN MINISTRY, JUNE m AND MILL RAISE MATTER MITH HIM,
EXPRESSING USG'S CONCERN FOR SAFETY OF REFUGEES rtERE. CHAPLIN
HUSH)
IE