Which Major and Commander of the Argentine National Gendarmerie was involved in a special military intelligence service of the Argentine Army that collected information on and infiltrated guerrilla groups, human rights organizations, coordinated killings, kidnappings, and other abuses?
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Agustín Feced Agustín Feced (born June 11, 1921, died 1980s or 1990s) was a Major and Commander of the Argentine National Gendarmerie, and the head of the Police of the Province of Santa Fe for the city of Rosario, during the Dirty War. He was in charge of the 2nd Regional Police Corps, and he was also part of Intelligence Battalion 601 of the Argentine Army since June 1974, before the beginning of the military dictatorship, in the last days of the presidency of Juan Perón.
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Batallón de Inteligencia 601 The Batallón de Inteligencia 601 (Spanish for "601 Intelligence Battalion") was a special military intelligence service of the Argentine Army whose structure was set up in the late 1970s, active in the Dirty War and Operation Condor, and disbanded in 2000. Its personnel collected information on and infiltrated guerrilla groups and human rights organisations, and coordinated killings, kidnappings and other abuses.
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25th Infantry Regiment (Argentina) The 25th Infantry Regiment (RI 25) is a unit of the Argentine Army based at Sarmiento, Chubut, Argentina and fought in the Falklands War. The commander of the regiment during the War was Lieutenant-Colonel Mohamed Alí Seineldín, considered by many Argentines to be the 'father' of the Argentine commandos. The regiment participated in the Battle of Goose Green and was considered a well trained unit.
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Civil Guard (Spain) The Guardia Civil (English: "Civil Guard" ; ] ) is the oldest law enforcement agency in Spain. It is organised as a military force charged with police duties under the authority of both the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Defence. The corps is colloquially known as the "benemérita " (reputable). In annual surveys, it generally ranks as the national institution most valued by Spaniards, closely followed by other law enforcement agencies and the military. It has both a regular national role and undertakes specific foreign peace-keeping missions. As a national police force, the "Guardia Civil" is comparable today to the French Gendarmerie, the Italian Carabinieri, the Portuguese National Republican Guard and the Dutch Royal Marechaussee as it is part of the European Gendarmerie.
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Operation Toucan (KGB) Operation TOUCAN was a conspiracy theory which alleged a KGB/DGI public relations and disinformation campaign directed at the military dictatorship of Chile led by Augusto Pinochet, first published by the FrontPage Magazine. According to former KGB officer Vasili Mitrokhin, the alleged plot was originally conceived by Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov. The alleged plot's twofold task was to organize sympathetic human rights activists to pressure the United Nations and generate negative press for the Pinochet dictatorship. In 1976, the start of TOUCAN, the New York Times published 66 articles on Chile’s human rights record and four on Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge and only 3 such articles on the human rights situation in Cuba.
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Jean Izamo Jean-Henri Izamo (died January 1966) was the head of the gendarmerie of the Central African Republic. He was killed following the Saint-Sylvestre coup d'état.
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Delfin Castro Delfin C. Castro is a retired Major General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. He was the commander of the AFP Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), from 1981 to 1986. Notable incidents during his tenure include the Pata Island massacre, the assassination of Zamboanga City Mayor Cesar Climaco, the rescue of kidnapped Bishop Federico O. Escaler from Muslim rebels and the strafing of the Japanese vessel "Hegg" by Philippine Air Force fighters off Mindanao.
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Mauricio Jaramillo Mauricio Jaramillo (born 1952) is the "nom de guerre" of Jaime Alberto Parra or Wilson Valderrama Cano a former high-ranking guerrilla commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), also known as "El Médico" (the medic). Jaramillo became a member of the FARC Secretariat in March, 2008, replacing Iván Ríos.
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Agrupación de Comandos Especiales Aéreos The Agrupación de Comandos Especiales Aéreos formerly known as "Grupo Anti-Secuestro de Aviones " ("Airborne Counter-Hijacking Group", GASDA) is an elite unit of the Colombian Air Force, although it is under the operational command of the CIAES (Centro de Información Anti-Extorsión y Secuestros).
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Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia The Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia (ANI) is the Chilean government national intelligence agency. Created in 2004, its mission is to coordinate, and advise the President on, intelligence. It is attached administratively to the Ministry of the Interior.
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Mauro del Vecchio General Mauro Del Vecchio OMRI (born 7 June 1946) is a former Italian Army general and politician. He commanded the NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan from August 2005 to May 2006 and was succeeded by British general David Richards.
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Julio Rodolfo Alsogaray Julio Alsogaray (1918–1994) was an Argentine Army general.
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Servicio de Inteligencia Naval (Argentina) Servicio de Inteligencia Naval ("Naval Intelligence Service") is the intelligence agency of the Argentine Navy. It is part of J-2 and of the General Staff of the Navy, and its current director is Vice Admiral IM (Infantería de Marina) Enrique Salvador Olmedo. Its duties include gathering naval intelligence relevant to Argentina.
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Inteligencia de la Prefectura Naval Argentina Inteligencia de la Prefectura Naval Argentina ("Argentine Naval Prefecture Intelligence") is the intelligence agency of the Argentine Naval Prefecture.
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Felix Batista Felix Batista is a Cuban-American anti-kidnapping expert and former U.S. Army major who has negotiated resolution to nearly 100 kidnapping and ransom cases, dozens of them in Mexico. Batista was a consultant for Houston, Texas-based security firm ASI Global. In December 2008, he was kidnapped in Mexico.
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National Archive of Remembrance The National Archive of Remembrance ("Archivo Nacional de la Memoria") is an archive set up by decree 1259/2003 of the president of Argentina Néstor Kirchner on 16 December 2003 to obtain and process data pertaining to human rights violations by the Argentine State, obviously referring to events of the illegal dirty war of 1976 to 1983 waged by the state on those it perceived as its enemies.
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Coordinación de Informaciones de Estado Coordinación de Informaciones de Estado ("State Intelligence Coordination", CIDE) was the first Argentine civilian intelligence agency created in 1946 by Juan Perón. It is the predecessor of Secretaría de Informaciones de Estado and the current Secretaría de Inteligencia
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Leopoldo Galtieri Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri Castelli (] ; 15 July 1926 12 January 2003) was an Argentine general and President of Argentina from 22 December 1981 to 18 June 1982, during the last military dictatorship (known officially as the National Reorganization Process). The death squad, 601 Intelligence Battalion, directly reported to him. He was removed from power soon after the British re-took the Falklands Islands, whose invasion and occupation he had ordered.
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Trial of the Juntas The Trial of the Juntas (Spanish, Juicio a las Juntas) was the judicial trial of the members of the "de facto" military government that ruled Argentina during the dictatorship of the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional ("el proceso"), which lasted from 1976 to 1983.
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Rodolfo Almirón Rodolfo Almirón Sena (February 17, 1936 – June 5, 2009) was a former Argentine police officer and a leader of an extreme right-wing death squad known as the Triple A, operating in Argentina from 1973 to 1976 against the left-wing of Peronistas and other political dissidents. The group is held responsible for 1,500 murders of government opponents during the terms of Juan and Isabel Perón.
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Montoneros Montoneros (Spanish: "Movimiento Peronista Montonero-MPM" ) was an Argentine leftist terrorist and urban guerrilla group, active during the 1960s and 1970s. The name is an allusion to the 19th century cavalry militias, called Montoneras, who fought for the Partido Federal during the Argentine Civil Wars.
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Pisagua case The Pisagua Case is the name given to the legal actions taken surrounding the crimes that occurred in the torture center and prison camp installed in the town of Pisagua, during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile.