Date

Sep 8, 1977

Description

Based on unidentified sources in Argentina, this CIA intelligence cable indicates that agents of the State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE) were responsible for kidnapping, torturing, murdering, and disappearing Argentina’s own ambassador to Venezuela, Hector Hidalgo Sola, in July 1977. Misspelling the street name Bacacay, the cable reports that “When Hidalgo Sola was kidnapped, he was taken to a house at Bacabay 3570 in the federal capital which SIDE rents and uses for official operations of Gordon's group.” Thanks to this document, in his court filing on June 11, 2020, Judge Daniel Rafecas announced the discovery of “a new clandestine detention and torture center that would have been in operation from at least the beginning of the year 1976.” Until the release of the precise address in the CIA document, according to Albertina Caron, an assistant to Judge Rafecas, the judiciary “lacked sufficient evidence” to identify its location.

Source

ADP final Release, April 12, 2019

Document published in following posting(s):

‘Declassification Diplomacy’: Lessons Learned on The Argentina Declassification Project (ADP)

Sep 22, 2021

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" Document, September 8, 1977.