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malletgirl02

(1,523 posts) Sat Mar 19, 2016, 01:03 PM Mar 2016

Obama to Unseal Files on Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’

From the New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Obama is moving to declassify American military, intelligence and law enforcement records that could reveal what the United States government knew about Argentina’s brutal “dirty war” of the 1970s and ’80s, a senior adviser said on Thursday, hoping to pierce the shroud of secrecy that has surrounded a painful chapter in that country’s history.

Susan E. Rice, Mr. Obama’s national security adviser, said that the president would use a visit to Argentina on Wednesday and Thursday, which coincides with the 40th anniversary of the 1976 coup that began the war, to honor the victims and formally begin the declassification process.

“On this anniversary and beyond, we’re determined to do our part as Argentina continues to heal and move forward as one nation,” Ms. Rice said during a speech at the Atlantic Council in Washington.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/world/americas/obama-to-unseal-files-on-argentinas-dirty-war.html?ref=americas

I wonder if Bernie Sanders criticizing Kissinger and the U.S. policy in Latin American had anything to do with this turn of events.

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This article has a "correction" at the end CoffeeCat Mar 2016 #1

CoffeeCat

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1. This article has a "correction" at the end

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Sat Mar 19, 2016, 01:15 PM

Mar 2016

"Correction: March 19, 2016

An article on Friday about President Obama’s move to declassify records that could reveal what the United States government knew about Argentina’s brutal war of the 1970s and ’80s misidentified the source of an account of a conversation in 1976 between Henry Kissinger, then secretary of state, and Cesar Augusto Guzzetti, the Argentine foreign minister. The account was in a document released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the National Security Archive; it did not come from documents the State Department declassified in 2002."

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