Date

Sep 8, 1977

Description

This CIA intelligence cable reveals that SIDE agents also disappeared and murdered Argentina’s own ambassador to Venezuela, Hector Hidalgo Sola, in July 1977. CIA sources described it as a rogue operation “to demand money from his family.” The SIDE team was led by “Anibal Gordon” but also included the son-in-law of former SIDE Director, Otto Paladino, according to CIA sources.

Source

Argentina Declassification Project, April 2019

Document published in following posting(s):

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Apr 12, 2019

CIA Intelligence Information Cable, “Kidnapping and Assassination of Argentine Ambassador to Venezuela by a Group Associated with Argentine State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE) Without Side Knowledge or Authorization,” Secret/Exclusive for, September 8, 1977.