Recently declassified secret documents reveal that police killed 30 people during the Fatima massacre

On August 21, 1976, the Argentine press repeated almost unanimously: "The national government yesterday repudiated" strictly "the Assbadination of mbad committed at dawn in a field located in the jurisdiction of Pilar61 km west of the federal capital. "It has also been reported that the Interior Ministry of this last dictatorship repudiated" the vandalism attributable to the dementia of irrational groups that seek to disturb inner peace ".

And although the minister Albano Harguindeguy, head of the federal police, responsible for the crimes, also expressed a "firm decision to clarify the facts", the case before the appearance of 30 blasted bodies, called Mbadacre of Fatima, should wait for 2008, by the laws of Final Point and Due Obedience.

However, the cable Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) IN019953 gave an exact version some days: "Responsibility of the Federal Police for the murder of thirty people whose bodies were found on August 20, 1976. "

Turn in its four pages by the "secret" warning, the text belongs to the last package of declbadified documents in the United States between 1976 and 1983 and it's a telegram of intelligence. It was pointed out that the de facto chief executive, Jorge Rafael Videla, had been unhappy with the damage caused by the episode to the country's image: "Videla's objection does not mean that the 30 people supposedly involved in the montoneros were murdered, but rather public appearance of bodies"

He synthesized the document: "Videla agrees that subversives should be killed, but that the problem as a whole should be handled discreetly".

According to the secret cable, "the operational levels of the The Argentine Federal Police is responsible for the murder of 30 people both in retaliation for the badbadination of General Actis warning the extreme left to not participate in other acts of violence during the period of August 22"

On August 19, 1976, a group of men fired at the car in which the Retired Military Member, Omar Actis, Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the World Cup Soccer, "Autarchic World". 78, two days before giving a press conference on the subject. When he the government accused the Montoneros, the organization dismissed the prosecution on the basis of likelihood: by an army intern, Actis responded to Videla and the second of the entity, Rear-Admiral Carlos Lacoste, to the Navy's owner, Emilio Mbadera.

The August 22 is the anniversary of the Trelew Mbadacre, the killing of 16 guerrillas belonging to the Peronist armed groups and clbadists while they were trying complete a leak from Rawson Prison in 1972, which was a success only for guerrilla leaders Fernando Vaca Narvaja, Robert Quieto, Enrique Gorriarán Merlo and Domingo Menna.

Y while it was question of whether Actis had been killed by a group of paramilitaries from the School of Marine Mechanics (ESMA, a hypothesis that has not been refuted so far), appeared on 20 corpses of men and 10 of women, all killed at once in the head, scattered in pieces in a circle 20 meters in diameter near a well of nearly a meter caused by the explosion of the bodies.

In the pocket of one of the victims was found written on a paper the message "30 x 1", which has been interpreted as a commentary on Juan Domingo Perón's speech a few days before the 1955 coup d'etat: "And when one of us falls, five of them will fall!

The CIA report stated: "The federal police had received before information that there may be coordinated attacks of the People's Revolution Army (ERP) and Montoneros to commemorate August 22nd. And he said, about the origin of the victims: "The 30 people killed had been detained by the federal police for their alleged involvement in the Montoneros."

All the dead they had been abducted and were in the federal Superintendency of Federal Security's secret detention center, In Moreno street at 1400 from the city of Buenos Aires, better known by its previous name, Federal Coordination. From there, they were transferred to Fatima.

In the three paragraphs, the cable has developed the The irritation of Videla for advertising the material. "C & # 39; annoyed because the bodies were so visibly exposed and ordered that this not happen anymore in the future. Videla considers this kind of situation it reflects negatively on the reputation of Argentina both inside and outside the country, "says the first.

The second referred to "the public appearance of the bodies" and the third related to another case: "The President Videla is extremely angry by the appearance of Pilar's 30 bodies and 16 bodies from another site., whereas the situation seriously affects the image of the country ".

According to "Muertos por la représentation", a document Augusto Count Mac Donell, Noemí Labrune and Emilio Fermín Mignone 1982 for the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS), it could be "an event similar to that of the Pilar mbadacre" happened on the same day in Lomas de Zamora, "although the public opinion is aware of the same subject only by trascendidos".

Until now, only 20 of the 30 dead at the Fatima mbadacre have been identifiedFollowing members: Inés Nocetti, Ramón Lorenzo Vélez, Ángel Osvaldo Leiva, Alberto Evaristo Comas, Conrado Alsogaray, Jorge Daniel Argente, Carlos Raúl Pargas, Ricardo José Herrera, José Daniel Bronzel, Susana Pedrini of Bronzel, Carmen María Carnaghi, Haydeé Cirullo, Hayd Susana Fontini, Selma Julia Ocampo, Horacio García Gastelú, Juan Carlos Vera, Roberto Hector Olivestre, Enrique Jorge Aggio, Maria Rosa Lincon and Cecilia Podolsky from Bronzel.

In 2008, the Federal Court 5 (COT 5) sentenced to life in prison for the case to retired police officers Juan Carlos Lapuyole (who has been described as a trusted man of Harguindeguy) and Carlos Gallonewhile acquitting Miguel Angel Timarchi. Luis Alberto Martínez, a fugitive, has not been tried, nor Carlos Vicente Marcote, deceased.

The case was recalled: "At about 4.30 am on August 20, 1976, people close to the scene of the events observed an explosion and in the morning, around 5.30 am, a group of workers on their way to his work, found, about two kilometers from Urquiza station, 30 bodies […] with his hands tied and his eyes covered with kind tape. "

Gallone had a brief fame as a police officer kissing a woman of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. The photo that Marcelo Ranea took the DYN agency – What lent itself to many interpretations and deserved the prize of the King of Spain – was mentioned before the TOC5. While he was maintaining his innocence, Gallone quoted: "From there, my colleagues have abandoned me and one of them warned me: This will bring you many woes. And today I am sitting here. "