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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
memorandum
DATE. JUly 3, 1980
7attno?j. PPC/PDPR/CP, J.onathan

■ubjecti. Weekly Report

to. AA/PPC, Mr. Charles Paolillo (Acting)

To undeAAtand Argentina.'* economic. hUtoAy, the
approach oh a pAychiatnic social. ujonken might be 1
moAe uaej[uZ than that oh an economist... . f
Con&ideAabZe. px.ogA.eA6. has been made, in 6ta.biLi.zing v
both the. economy and iociety in the 6 ho At nun,
although at a ca6t in tenmA oh yet another Ahanp
dnop in h.eat unban uxcge& and 6ome Zoaa oh poiitical
hAeedom.

Report: News and views

15 Case 2662 - Alberto - Samuel FALICOFF

The Commission heard public testimony from the wife of Dr. Fallcoff,
denouncing the detention, Imprisonment and torture of Hr. Fallcoff by the
Security Forces. ^ The arrest took place In his residence, In the presence of
his wife, who was'also detained and later released. Mrs. Fallcoff signed the
testimony.

Doctor Fallcoff, a physician,- was practicing In the C6rdoba Children's
Hospital and was a member of the Medical Association of that city.

The Commission considers pertinent the complete transcription of Mrs.
Fallcoff's testimony:

On Thursday, November 25, 1976, at 18 hours, the bell rang .
In the apartment where I lived with my husband, Dr. Alberto
Samuel Fallcoff and my son, Alfredo Fallcoff, who was then two
years of age. I saw through the peephole four men In civilian
clothes standing against the wall. When they realized I was
there, they knocked the door, and told me to open it or they
would shoot. Since the baby was sitting watching television In

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