I unnussmw Current Handling Page 1 7 29 74 Document Number 1976BUENOSO6130 Channel n a Case Number 200000044 PAGE 01 BUENOS 06130 2022132 71 ACTION SS-ZS INFO ISO-00 026 106662 2021152 SEP 76 FM AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES I ARGENTINA TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 7181 U5 DEPT AIRES 6130 Release Exdsc Dmy I 71 Mass-aw mm Mm I E O 11652 GDS TAGS PFOR SHUM AR US OTHER ASPECTS OF SEPTEMBER 17 CONVERSATION WITH FOREIGN MINISTER REF BUENOS AIRES 6100 l I CALLED ON FONMIN GUZZETTI AT HIS REQUEST SEPT 17 THE FIRST TIME I HAD SEEN HIM SINCE MY RETURN TO POST HE OPENED THE VERSATION BY ASKING ME HOW I HAD FOUND THE ATMOSPHERE IN THE US I REPLIED THAT EVERYWHERE I HAD GONE I HAD FOUND THE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN ARGENTINA TO BE THE BURNING ISSUE IN TERMS OF ARGENTINA RELATIONS TO HIM THAT THERE WAS A GOOD DEAL OF SYMPATHY IN THE US FOR THE VIDELA GOVT BUT THAT WHEN SUCH ACTS AS THE MURDER OF THE PRIESTS ON JULY 4 AND THE RECENT MASS MURDER IN PILAR WENT UNPUNISHED IT WAS DIFFICULT FOR FRIENDS TO ARGUE THAT THE GOVERNMENT ALL IT SHOULD TO GET THE SITUATION UNDER CONTROL 2 GUZZETTI REACTED WITH EMOTION TO MY MENTION OF THE MASS MURDER AT PILAR HE SAID THIS WAS A TERRIBLE THING AND A DISGRACE TO THE WHOLE GOVERNMENT HE ASSURED ME THAT HE ADMIRAL PRESIDENT VIDELA AND ALL OTHER SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE GOVT WERE OUTRAGED WHEN I ASKED HIM IF THEN THOSE RESPONSIBLE WOULD BE DISCIPLINED HE REPLIED THAT THIS WAS A VERY DIFFICULT QUESTION IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT HE SAID FOR PRESIDENT VIDELA TO BRING TO JUSTICE THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS AND OTHER JUTRAGES UNTIL HE HAD CONSOLIDATED HIS OWNPOSITION BUT EUZZETTI WENT ON THERE WAS IMPROVEMENT IN THIS AREA AND HE GOVERNMENT WAS BEGINNING TO GET THE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION Zurrent Class Page 1 Cuifent Class Page 2 Current Handling 1 Document Number 1976BUEN0806130 Channel n a mm 1 Case Number 200000044 PAGE 02 BUENOS 06130 2022132 IN HAND 3 THE FOREIGN MINISTER SAID GOA HAD BEEN SOMEWHAT SURPRISED BY INDICATIONS OF SUCH STRONG CONCERN ON THE PART OF THE USG IN HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN ARGENTINA WHEN HE HAD SEEN SECY OF STATE KISSINGER IN SANTIAGO THE LATTER HAD SAID HE THE ARGENTINE GOVT COULD GET THE TERRORIST PROBLEM UNDER CONTROL AS QUICKLY AS GUZZETTI SAID THAT HE HAD REPORTED THIS TO PRESIDENT VIDELA AND TO THE CABINET AND THAT THEIR I IMPRESSION HAD BEEN THAT OVERRIDING CONCERN WAS NOT HUMAN RIGHTS BUT RATHER THAT GOA IT OVER 4 I REPLIED THAT I DID NOT SEE ANY INCONSISTENCY IN THE POSITION OF THE USG THE SECRETARY HAD INDICATED HE HOPED ARGENTINA WOULD WRAP UP THE TERRORIST PROBLEM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND THAT VIEW WAS CERTAINLY SHARED BY THE EMBASSY AND THE REST OF USG BUT THIS IN NO WAY IMPLIED AN INSOUCIANT ATTITUDE REGARDING HUMAN RIGHTS WE BELIEVED MURDERING PRIESTS AND DUMPING 47 BODIES IN THE STREET IN ONE DAY COULD NOT BE SEEN IN CONTEXT OF DEFEATING TERRORISTS ON CONTRARY SUCH ACTS WERE PROBABLY COUNTERPRODUCTIVE WHAT USG HOPED WAS THAT GOA COULD SOON DEFEAT TERRORISTS YES BUT DO 80 AS NEARLY AS POSSIBLE WITHIN THE LAW I SAID IF ANY OTHER MEANING HAD BEEN PLACED ON THE REMARKS I WAS SURE IT WAS A MISINTERPRETATION 5 GUZZETTI THEN INFORMED ME OF AMBASSADOR RESIGNATION SEE 5 GUZZETTI EMPHASIZED THAT THE GOA ATTACHES GREAT PO THE DEDICATION OF THE STATUE ON OCT 6 AND HE ASKED WHO HOULD REPRESENT THE USG I INDICATED TO HIM THAT I WAS NOT CERTAIN AT THIS POINT WHO THE SENIOR USG REPRESENTATIVE WOULD BE BUT THAT I WOULD INFORM HIM AS SOON AS THAT INFORMATION WAS IN GIVEN THAT THE ARGENTINE FOREIGN MINISTER HIMSELF WILL BE PRESENT AT THE CEREMEONIES I HOPE THAT AN APPROPRIATELY IIGH-LEVEL OFFICER OF THE USG WILL ALSO BE PRESENT INN Iurrent Class - Page 2 UHBLASSIHED Current Class Page 1 Current Handling n a Document Number 197BBUENOSO7440 Channel n axa PAGE 01 BUENOS 07440 2122072 ACTION INFO ISO-00 VO-OS 061 - - - - - - - 084524 2301512 15 2018292 SEP 78 FM AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES TO SECSTATE WASHDC 7580 INFO USCINCSO ARGENTINA PROJECT 8200000044 USIEFEOFSHHEAAWSMB BUENOS AIRES 7440 NRelcasc Excise Dcny E O 11552 NA Wm InPart OInFuu Decame Classifyas_ Extendas Downgradetom Dme Mann TAGS SHUM AR CVIS SUBJECT PEN PRISONER CHANGES l MINISTRY OF INTERIOR ISSUED LATEST ANNOUNCEMENT ON SEPTEMBER 15 THE ANNOUNCEMENT LISTED 47 PERSONS WHOSE PEN STATUS HAS BEEN REVOKED MININT ALSO NOTED THE EXPULSION OF ONE PERSON AND THE GRANTING OF THE RIGHT OF OPTION TO ANOTHER THE ANNOUNCEMENT ALSO LISTED THE NAMES OF 9 PERSONS RECENTLY PLACED UNDER EXECUTIVE DETENTION 2 TWO OF THE-NEW PEN DETAINEES WERE US INTEREST CASES ABEL DE LEON 391 78 5 WAS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED ON APRIL 8 1978 ALONG WITH A NUMBER OF PERSONS LIVING AND PROVIDING MEDICAL SERVICES TO A WORKING CLASS HOUSING PROJECT IN SAN JUSTO IN THE BUENOS AIRES SUBURBS ALBERTO FELIPE MALY OLVITZ 332 78 4 WHOSE MOTHER IS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN WAS REPORTED ABDUCTED IN SEPTEMBER 9 1977 FROM A SUBURB OF LA PLATA PAGE 02 BUENOS 07440 212207Z CHAPLIN Current Class P396 1