This is a report by the US Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) which analyses the decoupling of the US and the military regimes of the Southern Cone in light of the regimes' authoritarian tactics and heightened public concern in the US regarding human rights violations. The report is not dated.

This document contains a list of names of Uruguayans arrested in Argentina and imprisoned in Uruguay. The document is not signed.

This report recounts the operation of the detention, torture, and imprisonment of the Brazilian exile Jefferson Cardim de Alencar Osario, along with his son, and his nephew, in Buenos Aires on 11th December 1970 and their arrival at Buenos Aires port from Colonia (Uruguay). The operation was coordinated and carried out by military attachés belonging to the Brazilian embassy in Buenos Aires and agents of the Coordinación Federal (Federal Coordination) of the Argentine Federal Police. Even though the report is not signed, it is known that the military attaché was Nilo Caneppa da Silva.

This report was originally written in the Brazilian Embassy in Uruguay. It analyses the situation of refugees and Brazilian exiles in Uruguay, which fall under three main boxes according to their legal status: 1) political asylum seekers, 2) refugees (political or not), and 3) permanent residents.  Among the political exiles to receive asylum from the president of Uruguay were important figures such as João Goulart, Leonel Brizola, and Jefferson Cardim. The report dedicates several paragraphs to Goulart and Brizola, detailing their activities including Goulart’s potential trips to the United States and France and Brizola’s confinement in the small resort town of Atlántida in Uruguay. Whereas political refugees were individuals who entered Uruguay either illegally or with a tourist visa. The border between Brazil and Uruguay facilitated the movement of people and the possibility of accessing “territorial” asylum. Finally, permanent residents were people who had the right to apply for Uruguayan nationality on legal grounds.

This report recounts the operation that took place on 16th June 1971, leading to the detention and subsequent forced disappearance of the Brazilian exile Edmur Péricles Camargo. Argentine police officers forcibly dragged Camargo from a LAN-Chile plane, which had just arrived at Buenos Aires’ Ezeiza International Airport on a layover between Santiago (Chile) and Montevideo (Uruguay). A Brazilian Airforce (FAB) plane landed in Buenos Aires on 17th June and travelled to the Galeão Air Base in Rio (Brazil) with Camargo on board, escorted by Brazilian agents. The report is not signed but there is a stamp which reads “Adido do Exército” (“Army Attaché”) and “Uruguai” (“Uruguay”).

This report records that the Brazilian exile Edmur Péricles Camargo, nicknamed “Gauchão”, travelled on the LAN No.153 flight from Santiago (Chile) to Montevideo (Uruguay). He was carrying three letters with him: the first, which was addressed to a Uruguayan doctor, was actually a communication between Brazilian exiles in Uruguay and the Tupamaros guerrilla organisation. Edmur had been told not to contact Leonel Brizola and his followers in Uruguay. There is no signature and only a stamp can be seen at the bottom.

This report records that Brazilian exiles in Chile were worried about the disappearance of Edmur Péricles Camargo. In response, they handed a document to the Chilean Interior Ministry recounting Camargo’s trajectory and his journey to Montevideo on 16th June 1971 for health reasons. Camargo was due to return on 10th July but he had not contacted any of his comrades, who had received information that he had been kidnapped by Argentine and Brazilian police agents and later handed over to the Brazilian authorities. There is no signature and only a stamp can be seen at the bottom.

The CIA reports that General Sergio Arellano, Commander of the Second Division of the Chilean Army, has left Santiago on a special mission to Buenos Aires at the request of the Junta leadership.

Note N° 74/1972, dated 26 January 1972, sent from the Uruguayan Embassy in Chile to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr José A. Mora Otero, expressing the need to appoint Military, Naval, and Air Attachés before the Government of Chile, considering the arrival in that country of Uruguayan citizens involved in subversive activities.

Location: Department of the Historical and Diplomatic Archive – Section: Embassy of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay in Chile / Series: Confidential Documents / Year 1972 / Box 77 / Folder 9.

This report recounts that Joaquim Pires Cerveira and other Brazilian exiles in Chile suspected that an aeronautics attaché in Buenos Aires was responsible for Edmur Camargo’s disappearance. Cerveira was able to get hold of copies of records from the airline LAN-Chile confirming that Camargo had been forced to get off the aeroplane signed by the pilot in Ezeiza. This information clarifies doubts as to whether Camargo was actually arrested. There is no signature and the document is stamped at the bottom.

This document recounts that the Cuban Intelligence Directorate (G2) agent, Sonia Lafoz was having a romantic affair with the former Brazilian naval attaché, Joaquim Cerveira in Chile. He disclosed to Sonia that, after having received information about Edmur Camargo’s trip, he had contacted the aeronautic attaché in Buenos Aires, who was going to lead the operation to arrest Camargo. The news spread quickly among Brazilian exiles. Sonia managed to convince Cerveira to give her Camargo’s flight details. She was in fact a friend of Camargo’s and also infiltrated the Brazilian Embassy through the naval attaché. The document is unsigned and only a stamp can be seen at the bottom.

This report recounts that one of Brizola’s relatives, João Calixto, took a three-day trip from Porto Alegre (Brazil) to Montevideo (Uruguay) to deliver a report about the military situation in Brazil. The report states that the former governor of Rio Grande do Sul state (southern Brazil) would be “inactive” from thereafter, considering that nothing more could be done in Brazil. Brizola was living in an estancia in the Uruguayan department of Durazno. The letter is unsigned and stamped at the bottom.

In this document, the Brazilian Centro de Informações do Exterior (Centre of Foreign Information, CIEX) requests information about the Brazilian national Sydney José Marques in order to confirm if he is the same person as Sydney Marques, the member of the Brazilian Revolutionary Communist Party’s (Partido Comunista Revolucionário) leadership. It also requests any further information to help identify Sydney Marques. The letter is unsigned and only a stamp can be seen at the bottom.

This letter is composed of two parts. The head of the Foreigners’ Specialized Branch of São Paulo Police (Brazil), Homero Honorio Ferreira, writes to the general director of São Paulo Police, Lucio Vieria. Ferreira forwards a receipt to Vieria that he had received from the Argentine police at the Iguazú Police Precinct when they seized four Argentine citizens who were living undercover in Brazil. The Argentines were handed over by the Brazilian police and held at the police station while their records were being investigated. The report is accompanied by the attached receipt from the Iguazú Police Precinct. The document is signed by the head delegate, Homero Honorio Ferreira.

Telex C299/24, dated 28 June 1973, sent from the Uruguayan Embassy in the Republic of Argentina to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Juan Carlos Blanco, requesting directives on how to proceed when Uruguayan citizens, who have been granted political asylum from the Argentine government, come to the Uruguayan Consular offices in Argentina, as well as regarding citizens who are wanted in Uruguay.

Location: Department of the Historical and Diplomatic Archive – Section: Embassy of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay in Argentina / Series: Confidential Documents / Year 1973 / Box 1 / Folder A.

This report by the US Department of Defense Intelligence forwards information regarding the close liaison between the Uruguayan and Chilean armies to interrogate the large numbers of Uruguayan political refugees in Chile, many of whom are assumed to be Tupamaros.

This report forwards information on the close liaison in September 1973 between the Uruguayan Army and the Chilean Army to deal with the large number of Uruguayans in Chile, many of whom are presumed to be Tupamaro guerrilla fighters. The report notes that Uruguay has a small team of officers working at the Chilean Army’s Headquarters in Santiago in order to review the status of all Uruguayans in Chile.

The US Embassy in Santiago briefs the State Department in Washington on reports from Brazilian nationals released from detention in Chile's National Stadium. The Brazilian detainees highlighted that they had been interrogated by individuals speaking fluent Portuguese who they assumed to be officers from the Brazilian police or military.

The US Embassy in Buenos Aires briefs the State Department in Washington that the leftist People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) had captured 6 news people, including 2 US nationals, in order to hold a conference with them.

In this document, the US Embassy in Chile briefs the State Department on Pinochet's visits to Paraguay and Argentina. The US Embassy in Santiago declares to the Secretary of State that it is aware of close intelligence and security police ties between Chile and Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay etc.

This is a document produced by the US Department of Defense Intelligence which shares the official decree on the creation of the Chilean National Intelligence Directorate (DINA). It includes a translation of the decree published in the Chilean newspaper El Diario.

In this document, the CIA reports that elements in the Chilean government are attempting to locate and assassinate major leftist leaders in Europe. Chilean naval reserve officers have been deployed to Europe.

This document mentions that the Chilean security services are working with Argentine, Brazilian, and Uruguayan officers for the interrogation of political opponents. It is also reported that the Chilean services have been sending officers to Brazil for intelligence training and Brazilian officers were sent to Chile as advisors during the early day's of Pinochet's regime.

This report states that the Brazilian private consulate in the Argentine city of Alvear had received a tip-off from the customs authorities at Brazil’s Itaqui Port that the Argentine Alberto Rosales had entered Brazilian territory via the port on 26th August 1974, travelling in a red car and accompanied by a woman. Rosales was on a wanted list in Argentina and had received a prison order, according to information provided by the customs authorities in Alvear. The document is unsigned.

This document recounts that the Argentine Federal Police had completed an operation in hotels in Buenos Aires in order to seize weapons. In the Hotel Madrid, two Brazilians, one Bolivian, and a Uruguayan were arrested, all of whom were political exiles who had arrived from Chile through the Argentine Embassy. Appendix a) mentions other Brazilian citizens, specifically the former major Joaquim Pires Cerveira and João Batista Rita, who had supposedly been handed over to the Brazilian authorities. Appendix b) shares news from Rio (Brazil) and mentions the Brazilian Church’s concern regarding the whereabouts of the political asylums including Cerveira. (Appendices a) and b) are not included). There is no signature.

The US Embassy in Montevideo informs the State Department in Washington about five bodies with bullet wounds found at a roadside near Montevideo. The deceased are believed to be members of the Uruguayan movement, Tupamaros, but they are dressed in Argentine-made clothing which raises questions concerning the potential involvement of the Argentine military regime.

Robert W. Schrerrer, Agregado de Asuntos Legales en la Embajada Estadounidense en Argentina escribe al Inspector Jaime Vázquez Alcaíno sobre la detención del militante chileno del MIR Jorge Fuentes Alarcón en Asunción, Paraguay luego de entrar al país ilegalmente.

Documents of the Revolutionary Coordinating Junta (JCR) related to its activities in Europe and Latin America. The document reports that the JCR met with human rights organisations in Geneva regarding the situation of political refugees. Subsequently, it indicates the whereabouts of certain JCR members.

The Secretary of State in Washington writes to the US Embassy in Argentina about concerns raised by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) regarding the refoulment and assassination of Chilean refugees in Argentina and the mistreatment of UNHCR personnel on the ground.

The US Ambassador to Argentina briefs the State Department on the two confirmed Chilean refugees killed in Argentina since January 1975, Sergio Montenegro Godoy and Victor Oliva.

US Embassy in Buenos Aires briefs Secretary of State on deaths and disappearances of Chilean extremists and suspects the involvement of the Argentine government including cooperation with the Chilean government and with governments of Paraguay and Uruguay. 

En este documento, el agente chileno Enrique Lautaro Arancibia Clavel (alias 'Luis Felipe Alemparte') escribe a la DINA. Comparte inteligencia sobre la JCR proveniente del coronel argentino, José Osvaldo Ribeiro ('Rawson') y menciona que Rawson viajará a Santiago para investigar el tema.  

Rawson ha propuesto la idea de formar 'una central de inteligencia coordinada entre Chile, Argentina, Uruguay y Paraguay'.

This is a memorandum from the US State Department addressed to members and participants of the Working Group/ Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism. The State Department reports that the JCR has largely been defeated by the security forces in the Southern Cone.

El agente chileno, Enrique Lautaro Arancibia Clavel (alias 'Luis Felipe Alemparte') escribe a la DINA en Santiago. El coronel argentino José Osvaldo Ribeiro (alias 'Rawson') se ha enterrado que las fuerzas paraguayas han entregado al militante del MIR Jorge Fuentes Alarcón ('Trosko') a las fuerzas chilenas.

En este documento, el agente de la DINA, Enrique Lautaro Arancibia Clavel (alias 'Luis Felipe Alemparte') informa a sus superiores del malestar de José Osvaldo Ribeiro (alias 'Rawson') porque no ha sido invitado al congreso en Santiago (por el cual se establecerá el Plan Cóndor). En lugar de Rawson, se ha invitado a un delegado de la SIDE. Seguido al reciente desarrollo de la JCR, Rawson viajará a Santiago.

En este memorándum, el agente de la DINA chilena, Enrique Arancibia Clavel escribe a sus superiores. Arancibia Clavel menciona su reunión con 'Rawson' (José Osvaldo Ribeiro), agente del Batallón de Inteligencia 601 del Ejército Argentino. Rawson confirmó el asesinato del militante del MIR, Jean Ives Claudet Fernández. Se está tratando de localizar a Edgardo Enríquez, líder del MIR.

Arancibia Clavel menciona que pronto Rawson viajará a Santiago con el fin de saber las novedades de la JCR y del MIR. Arancibia Clavel quiere convencer a sus superiores en la DINA que invitan a Rawson al congreso en Santiago en la cual se establecerá el Plan Cóndor.

En este documento, el agente chileno de la DINA Enrique Lautaro Arancibia Clavel (conocido por su alias 'Luis Felipe Alemparte') escribe a sus superiores en la DINA. Por medio del colonel argentino Jose Osvaldo Riveiro (alias 'Rawson'), se ha confirmado que el militante del MIR Claudet Fernández ha sido asesinado y el lider del MIR Edgardo Enríquez se encuentra en Buenos Aires.

Enrique Lautaro Arancibia Clavel, agente chileno de la DINA (conocido por su alias Luis Felipe Alemparte Díaz) comenta sobre la situación política y económica de la Argentina durante la fase previa al golpe de estado.

Note H12/1975 (1827), dated 25 November 1975, sent from the Uruguayan Embassy in the Republic of Argentina to the Consular Offices, forwarding the directives received notifying the cancellation of the passports of Uruguayan citizens Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, Zelmar Michelini and Héctor Gutiérrez Ruíz. It moreover requests the transmission of that information to the Federal Police, the Migration Directorate, and other Consular Offices in the Republic in Argentina.

Location: Department of the Historical and Diplomatic Archive – Section: Embassy of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay in Argentina / Series: Confidential Documents / Year 1975 / Box 1 / Folder H12.

Este documento contiene la acta original y la traducción de la acta de clausura de la primera reunión interamericana de inteligencia nacional que tuvo lugar el 28 de noviembre de 1975 en Santiago de Chile.

Se confirma que el líder del Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), Miguel Enríquez se encuentra en Buenos Aires por el coronel José Osvaldo Ribeiro (conocido por su alias 'Rawson'). Se planea la captura de Enríquez con el fin de combatir el MIR y la JCR.

Telex (Transcription) C265 and C266, dated 12 December 1975, sent from the Embassy of Uruguay in the United States (URUWASHI) to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DIPLOMACY) reporting on the meetings that Senator Wilson Ferreira Aldunate had requested with government authorities.

Location: Department of the Historical and Diplomatic Archive – Section: Embassy of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay in the United States / Series: Ciphered Telex Received from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Year 1975 / Box 52 / Folder 4.

This document contains a list of Uruguayans who disappeared in Argentina in 1976 and reappeared in Uruguay.

The US Embassy in Uruguay writes to the State Department about the case of Ruben de Gregorio: a Montonero who was captured while trying to enter Uruguay and later handed over to the Argentine security forces.

The US Ambassador to Uruguay informs the State Department about his discussion with Uruguayan Commander-in-Chief General Julio Vadora and the Army Chief of Staff, General Luis Queirolo regarding the human rights situation in the country.

El Director de la DINA Exterior, conocido por su alias 'Santiago-Luis Gutierrez' confirma que se ha contactado con el coronel José Osvaldo Ribeiro del Batallón de Inteligencia 601 del Ejército Argentino (conocido por su alias 'Rawson') para proponer una posible colaboración entre la DINA de Chile y la SIDE de Argentina. Rawson ha pedido apoyo financiero de la Argentina.

En este memorandum, 'Luis Gutierrez' (el alias del director de la DINA Exterior) dice que el coronel argentino José Osvaldo Ribeiro, agente del Batallón de Inteligencia 601 ha indicado que la Secretaría de Informaciones del Estado de Argentina está dispuesto a colaborar con la DINA de Chile.

Este documento contiene inteligencia sobre una reunión del Partido Revolucionario de los Trajadores - Ejército del Pueblo (PRT-ERP) en Morón, Provincia de Buenos Aires incluyendo la muerte de cuatro integrantes por parte de las fuerzas de seguridad.

This is a memorandum written by Chilean DINA agent Enrique Lautaro Arancibia Clavel (signed with his alias 'Luis Felipe Alemparte Diaz'). It mentions that Osvaldo Rawson is offering to hand over a 'packet' in Mendoza (Argentina).

This is a communication from Chilean DINA agent Enrique Lautaro Arancibia Clavel (signed with his alias Luis Felipe Alemparte Díaz) which mentions the expansion of the DINA's network in Mendoza, Argentina.