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Truth, justice and declassification: Secret archives show US helped Argentine military wage 'dirty war' that killed 30,000

  • Written by Rut Diamint, Political Science Profesor, Torcuato di Tella University

History books may never tell the full story of the dictatorship that terrorized Argentina from 1976 to 1984.

But newly declassified United States military and intelligence documents recently delivered to Argentina offer new details about the country’s brutal military junta.

The archival documents were the fourth and final batch of 43,000...

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