35 61(25) The most senior State authorities knew about the actions taken to abduct Dr. Goiburú. This is revealed by various documents, for example: (a) (b) (c) Secret report No. 62 of October 1975 of the Intelligence Department of the Paraguayan Military Staff requested the location and urgent detention of Dr. Goiburú through the military attaché in the Paraguayan Embassy in Buenos Aires; A memorandum of December 30, 1975, from the Head of the Investigations Department, Pastor Milciades Coronel, to General Alfredo Stroessner, informing the latter of Dr. Goiburú’s activities and habits in Paraná, provided by his informer, Dr. Goiburú’s personal bodyguard; and A document of the Argentine Ministry of the Interior dated February 8, 1977 – one day before Dr. Goiburú’s abduction – addressed to the Head of the Investigations Department, Pastor Milciades Coronel, from an Argentine Army Captain advising that the person responsible for locating, following and arresting the “Paraguayan doctor” had received all the necessary resources for his mobilization and transport. 61(26) In Paraguay, Dr. Goiburú was accused publicly of masterminding a plot to kill General Stroessner. However, no formal charges were filed against him, and the Government did not acknowledge that he was in the State’s custody. 61(27) According to some reports, following his abduction, Dr. Goiburú was imprisoned in the Entre Ríos Air Force base, in Argentina. From there, he was taken by aircraft to Formosa and handed over to the Paraguayan authorities in Puerto Falcon. No written evidence remains of his alleged presence in the Investigations Department. His name does not appear in the 1977 ledger of “entry and departure of detainees.” Nevertheless,32 there are testimonies stating that Dr. Goiburú was seen alive in Paraguayan prisons. Domingo Rolón Centurión, a former prisoner in the Paraguay Investigations Department, recognized Dr. Goiburú from a photograph and said he had seen him being tortured on those premises. He stated: At 10 p.m. on a date that I cannot recall, I saw him in a passageway, lying face up, having been beaten on all parts of his body. Three hours later, I was obliged to enter the torture chamber where I was asked if I knew him, and I said no. He (Goiburú) was unconscious and completely soaked. [T]hey had just immersed him in the water tank […]. 61(28) Dr. Goiburú’s disappearance is an example of the coordinated actions taken by the Paraguayan and Argentine security forces under “Operation Condor.” His disappearance fits the modus operandi used to disappear Paraguayans in Argentina during the military dictatorship in that country. 61(29) Elva Elisa Benítez de Goiburú, and her children, Rogelio Agustín, Rolando Agustín and Patricia Jazmín, all Goiburú Benítez, and Rosa Mujica Giménez, Dr. Goiburú Giménez’s sister, have suffered intensely owing to the illegal detention and disappearance of Agustín Goiburú Giménez. The facts have affected them physically and psychologically. The family’s finances were also affected by the facts of this case, because Agustín Goiburú Giménez’s wife and children depended on him. 32 Cf. Es mi informe, supra note 11, p. 320.