Intelligence/ Secret
strings of power in Argentina
On Monday night, Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner,
took the bold step of announcing a plan to dissolve the country’s Intelligence
Secretariat and send to congress a draft bill for the “reform of Argentina’s
intelligence service” in the wake of the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman
nine days ago.
A possible explanation for Nisman’s
death, which came only days after he announced charges that aimed to put
Fernández on trial for an alleged conspiracy with Iran, seems to be hidden
inside a complex saga of mind-boggling intrigue involving the intelligence
agency she now intends to reform.
Created as the Information Division
(División Informaciones) by Argentina’s strongman General Juan Perón in 1946,
the service’s first task was to arrange the postwar transport of Nazi war
criminals to Argentina, some of
whom then went on to serve in Perón’s intelligence agency.
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