Unpublished documents from during the military dictatorship show that at least six regime informants worked in Southern Cone countries. The papers were obtained by the ICL Notícias portal, which has been publishing a series on the topic.
One of the Brazilian dictatorship’s informants was a leader in the Counterintelligence Service of the Chilean Ministry of Defense and worked with the CIE to promote the coup against Another collaborator was a senior member of the Uruguayan Civil Police.
The agents were leaders of far-right paramilitary groups, members of repressive bodies from neighboring countries and undocumented immigrants.
A 68-page report shows that, among the methods used, was the co-option of members of opposition organizations to transform them into infiltrated double agents.
A notebook used by the colonel to account for the CIE’s actions between 1969 and 1974 records payments for tickets to Buenos Aires in September 1973 and expenses for purchasing revolvers for Chileans in February 1974.
Collaboration with infiltrators abroad had among its objectives monitoring the activities of Brazilian exiles, obtaining information about local politics and exchanging information with repression bodies about foreign militants in Brazil.
The papers also deal with the activities of infiltrators in far-right groups in Argentina. An agent would have provided information about the health status of President Juan Domingo Perón, who died in July 1974, and about the influence that the last Argentine dictator until then, General Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, maintained over the local Army.
The ICL Notícias series will be the basis of the documentary “Bandidos de Farda”, coordinated by journalist Juliana Dal Piva. The premiere will be on May 17th and the film will be available for free on ICL’s YouTube.
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