28 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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