Batallón de Inteligencia 601
The Batallón de Inteligencia 601 (601st Reconnaissance Battalion) was a unit of the Argentine military intelligence service . It was founded in the late 1970s under the Argentine military dictatorship and dissolved in 2000. The battalion was actively involved in the so-called dirty war against opposition members and in Operation Condor . His tasks were to obtain information, infiltrate human rights and guerrilla organizations, carry out state killings, kidnappings, torture and other human rights violations (see Desaparecidos and enforced disappearances ).
The battalion was commanded by Guillermo Suárez Mason and reported directly to the chief of the junta Leopoldo Galtieri . The unit took part in the so-called cocaine coup of Luis García Meza Tejada in Bolivia in 1980 and trained the right-wing Contras units in a training camp in Lepaterique (Honduras) in the 1980s . She also trained the 316 Honduran Battalion, which was responsible for death squads, murders, kidnappings and similar grave human rights violations.
Publication of secret documents
On January 1, 2010, the Argentine President Cristina Kirchner ordered the publication of the documents concerning the battalion.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b BuenosAiresNews.net: Argentina reveals secrets of 'dirty war' ( Memento from May 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ New Documents Describe Key Death Squad Under Former Army Chief Galtieri , US National Security Archive