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Argentina reveals secrets of 'dirty war' http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/594721/cs/1

Argentina has disclosed the secrets of the 'dirty war' waged against the left by the country's military regime between 1976 and 83 in which more than people 30,000 'disappeared'. The secret files of Battalion 601, described as the 'brain' that coordinated killings, kidnappings and other abuses, contains the identities of military and civilian personnel who played a role in the repression. The documents contain data on 3,900 civilians and 300 army personnel who worked for Battalion 601.

The battalion's civilian operatives included college professors as well as porters, concierges and maintenance men used to collect information and infiltrate guerrilla groups and human rights’ organizations. Some former commanders of the unit have died and others have been criminally charged, but many military and civilian veterans of the unit are still at large. The archive continues to go through more than 4 million digitized pages and thousands of dossiers in search of information. 

comment-guess who supported the brutal regime?yep the US GOVERNMENT...see...Document 10: Buenos Aires, 6177, "My Call on President Videla," and Document 11: Buenos Aires 6276, "Ambassador discusses US-Argentine Relations with President Videla" http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB125/condor10.pdf http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB125/condor11.pdf These documents are the reports by Ambassador Robert Hill of his first meeting with military ruler, General Videla, on September 21, 1976.  Videla dismissed the criticism by pointing to the recent visit by his foreign minister to Washington: "President said he had been gratified when Fonmin Guzzetti reported to him that Secretary of State Kissinger understood their problem and had said he hoped they could get terrorism under control as quickly as possible. Videla said he had impression senior officers of USG understood situation his govt faces but junior bureaucrats do not."  

also see...friendly dictators http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/dictators.htmlOne year after Videla's coup, Amnesty International estimated 15,000 people had disappeared and many were in secret detention camps, but although the U.S. press admitted human rights abuses occurred in Argentina, Videla was often described as a "moderate' who revitalized his nation's troubled economy. Videla had a good public relations firm in the U.S., Deaver and Hannaford, the same firm used by Ronald Reagan, Taiwan, and Guatemala. Videla also received aid from the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), through its affiliate, CAL (Confederation AntiCommunists Latinoamericana). CAL sent millions of dollars to Argentina from the US, including old anti-communist organizations with alliances with the Italian drug mafia. As part of its WACL affiliation, Argentina trained Nicaraguan contras for the US. Videla left office in 1981, and after the Falklands Crisis of 1982, he and his cohorts were tried for human rights abuses by the new government.