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The document [marked “SECRET” containing the presentation] by the Paraguayan
delegation on the agenda for the Seventh Bilateral Intelligence Conference between
the Armies of Paraguay and Argentina, […] stated that:
[…] It is clear that the best way to thwart the plans of the subversive groups is
an efficient coordination of intelligence activities between the Armies of
Paraguay and Argentina […]. Despite the undeniable efficiency of each
country’s security agencies, the indisputable efforts deployed by these negative
forces to expand the scope of their activities, finding no better mechanism to do
this than to ally themselves with subversive forces in other countries, crossing
national borders and attempting to form what could become a continental
movement, are also evident. The links and collaboration between subversive
groups from CHILE, PARAGUAY, ARGENTINA, BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, URUGUAY and
others have already been fully confirmed by available information. […]17
When inviting the Federal Security Superintendent to visit Asunción in 1976, Pastor
Coronel [Head of the Asunción Police Investigations Department at the time], stated:
[…] Regarding your visit, I consider it would be very useful for our agencies,
our countries and our Governments, especially if we take into consideration the
similar nature of our commitment to combat the challenges that, in Paraguay
and in Argentina, have the same origin and also the common purpose of
damaging or destroying the institutions on which each country’s national way of
live is based.
In this regard, the internationalization of political crime and violence, which are
closely related, is no longer a secret, and obliges us to consider
internationalizing the means of defense that the Constitution and the law allow
us. […]18
An alleged Junta Coordinadora Revolucionaria (JCR) [Revolutionary Coordinating Body]
was the entity that united the leftist revolutionary movements of these countries.
According to the Paraguayan thesis, JCR was organized in Paris at the end of 1973 and
transferred its headquarters to Argentina in February 1974. […] An unsigned
document analyzed the possible responses to the association of the leftist guerrilla in
this “Junta”:
[…] 3. CONCLUSIONS
a. We are faced by an irreversible, real and fully functional fact.
b. Guerrilla elements of four countries already integrated; with engaged and
committed organizations, and actions in countries with known anti-extremist
activism, such as PARAGUAY, where they seek to insert themselves using
political grudges and social vulnerability that they cleverly exploit even though
the latter have no real basis.
c. Lack of an integrated, unified and programmed system at the highest
governmental level that provides sufficient weapons to combat fully the
extremist organizations. […]
e. It must be understood that the fight we must undertake today is based on
intelligence; in other words, the fight must be waged at all levels of national life
(political, economic, religious, intellectual, trade union and psychological) (the
17
Cf. filing cabinet 1008 of the “Terror Archives”, p. 1344, transcribed in Es mi informe, supra note
11, p. 253.
18
Cf. unclassified document of May 28, 1976, to be found in Cupboard (Armario) 1 of the “Terror
Archives,” transcribed in Es mi informe, supra note 11, p. 254.
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