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NOT TO MENTION COX IN ANY ARTICLES.
INFO OCT-01 ARA-U ADS-00 HA-05 PH-06 NSC-05 SP-02
SS-15 CIAE-00 DOCE-00 I MR-10 NSAE-00 PA-01 /067 W 6. TI MERMAN ALSO MENTIONED THAT HE BELIEVES THE RIGHT-
................................... 060430 290425Z /23 WING AND VERY ANTI-SEMITIC NEWSPAPER CABIL30 IS FINANCED
R 25151OZ OCT 79 BY DIANA DE MASSOT, PUBLISHER OF NUEVA PRCVINCIA IN
FH AHEHBASSY TEL AVIV BAHIA BLANCA. INB: MRS. HASSOT WAS WELL-KNOWN TO THE
TO SECSTATE WASHOC 4307 EMBASSY, AND IF MEHORY SERVES, RECEIVED A MARIA MOORS
INFO USICA WASHOC CABOT OR IAPA AWARO II. 1973 OR 1974.1
ANEH9ASSY BUENOS AIRES
7. AS TO THE FUTURE OF ARGENTINE POLITICS, TI HERMAN
CONFIDENTIAL SECTION 01 OF 02 TEL AVIV 22920 SAYS HE SEES A SITUATION IN WHICH MODERATE AND RIGHT WING
ELEMENTS IN THE MILITARY WILL COMPETE FOR PERONIST
STATE FOR NEA/ARA VARY; NA FOR DERI AN SUPPORT, WHICH MAY-CREATE A SITUATION IN WHICH ISABEL PERON
USICA FOR AR WILL BE IN A POSITION TO DECIDE WHO RUNS ARGENTINA.
E.O. 12065: RDS 10/25/99 (DIETERICH, W.J.) OR-O B. IN CONVERSATION WITH TIMERMAN ONE IS LEFT WITH A
TAGS: PEPR, PI NR, PINT, IS, AR CHILLING IMPRESSION THAT HE IS SIMPLY REPORTING
SUBJECT: CONVERSATION WITH ARGENTINE EXILEJA£QBQ,.TJ11ER>UIN WHAT HE HAS EXPERIENCED AND BELIEVES. HE CHARACTERIZES
1. (C - ENTIRE TEXT) THE ARGENTINE MILITARY RIGHT AS CLASSICALLY TOTALITARIAN
AND ANTI-SEMITIC.
2. IN CONVERSATION WITH PRESS ATTACHE DIETERICH, WHO
KNEW HIH IN ARGENTINA DURING A 1972-74 TOUR THERE, 9. TIMERMAN IS NOW EMPLOYED BY THE IMPORTANT TEL AVIV
TI HERMAN DISCUSSED INTER ALIA HIS INTERROGATION BY DAILY MAARIV AND SEEMS COMFORTABLE VITH THAT FACT,
POLICE AUTHORITIES IN ARGENTINA, ANTI-SEMITISM ON THE ALTHOUGH HE SAID HE MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN SPENDING SOME
ARGENTINA MILITARY RIGHT, HIS PERSONAL DILEMMA AS TO TIME AT AN ACADEMIC INSTITUTION IN ThE US. HE SPECIFICALLY
WHETHER TO WRITE ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES, AND THE MENTIONED COLUHBIA. THUS FAR HE HAS WRITTEN ONLY ON
FUTURE OF ARGENTINE POLITICS. TINERNAN WILL BE IN THE LATIN AMERICAN NATTERS, BUT IT IS TO BE EXPECTED THAT HE
UNITED STATES TO RECEIVE AN AWARD FROM THE AMERICAN WILL BRANCH INTO BROADER DISCUSSION OF INTERNATIONAL
JEWISH CCNNITTEE ON SATURDAY, OCT. 27. AFTER THAT HE POLITICAL MATTERS. HE SAID THAT THE THEME OF A SPEECH
PLANS TO TRAVEL TO NEW YORK WHERE HE EXPECTS TO SEE HE WILL GIVE IN THE UNITED STATES WILL BE HUMAN RIGHTS
ASSISTANT SECRETARY DERIAN. TH^iy^WILL JSD.TO WASH­ AS THE IDEOLOGY OF THE EIGHTIES, AND ADDED THAT THE US
INGTON FOR VARIOUS MEET jN.G.j_ ON THE HIlT/V ThTTWMTMENT,
AND AT THE WhTtE-HOUSE~— "
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3. TIHERMAN SAID THAT THE MAIN FOCUS OF QUESTIONING
DURING HIS IMPRISONMENT WAS HIS ROLE AS THE ARGENTINE
’LEADER* OF AN ALLEGED WORLD ZIONIST CONSPIRACY, AND
THAT THERE WAS VERY LITTLE EMPHASIS ON ANY LEFTIST OR
TERRORIST CONNECTIONS. HE WAS ONCE TORTURED IN LA
PLATA IN A ROOM WlTh AN ORGANIZATION CHART WHICH SHOWED
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZIIISKI AS THE LEADER OF THE CONSPIRACY. ON
ANOTHER OCCASION HE WAS TOLD THAT HE WAS BEING BEATEN
BECAUSE HE HAD DARED TO USE THE TERM LEFTIST-FASCISTS
IN A CONVERSATION WITH ASSISTANT SECRETARY DERIAN, THE
OBJECTION APPARENTLY BEING THAT HE HAD SLANDERED FASCISM.
HE WAS ALSO QUESTIONED CONCERNING SUPPOSED CONTACTS
BETWEEN MENACHEM BEGIN AND THE HOHTONEKO GUERILLAS
DJRING A BEGIN VISIT TO ARGENTINA IN I97G. TIMERMAN
BELIEVED THESE QUESTIONS STEHHED FROM THE FACT THAT
BEGIN'S BOOK ’WAR IN THE HOLY LAND" HAD BEEN FOUND AMONG
MATERIALS USED BY 1HE MONIONIKOS. TIMERMAN WAS BROUGHT
FROM PRISON TO AN INTERVIEW WITH GEIi. HARGUINDEGUY IN
THE CASA ROSADA PRIOR TO A DERIAH VISIT. THE GENERAL
INFORMED HIH THAT THE ARGENTINA GOVERNMENT WAS AWARE
THAT PATT DERIAN WAS INTERESTED IN HIS CASE BECAUSE SHE
WAS HIS COUSIN.
4. TIMERMAN ALSO REPORTS THAT HE BELIEVES LANUSSE'S EX­
PRESS SECRETARY EDGARDO SAJCN DIED OF A HEART ATTACK
DURING TORTURE BY ELECTRIC SHOCK. SINCE HE WAS A
RELATIVELY YOUNG MAN, ThE MILITARY DID NOT SUSPECT THAT DECLASSIFIED
HE HAD A HEART CONDITION.
E.O. 13526
5. T IME.BMM ^S.NqW,RU.HST^HJ JJ) .VfclEOBfl^iSJ.JJPER- Authority M LC. -Le "4-1-,2-1
IENCES III ARGENTINA BECAUSE HE FEARS REPRISALS BY THE
MiL IfXRUJlJ*IHST FRTeIICs'STILL III TrGENT'ihT "AS ’aN NARA—Data u
EXAMPLE 0F~ IlTls’ HE PiEilTI'OMED "THAT“ROBERT COX, EDITOR OF
ThE BUENOS AIRES HERALD, HAD SENT A MESSAGE TO HIM
THROUGH THE ISRAELI EMBASSY IH BUENOS AIRES ASKING HIM
C O N F I D E N T I A L