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Patricia "Patt" Derian, Robert C. Hill, Et. Al., and The Argentine Dirty 'War': Draft MemCon

In April 1977, Patricia Derian--a long-time Mississippi civil rights activist and recently-inaugurated President Jimmy Carter's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs--traveled to Buenos Aires for a first-hand examination of the situation created by the predominately neo-nazi military regime's so-called dirty "war." A memorandum of conversation of her meetings that was later written by a Derian aide was in December 1985 shown to me, the author of Dossier Secreto: Argentina's Desaparecidos and the Myth of the "Dirty War," published in 1993. A key revelation contained in the memorandum was a conversation with outgoing U.S. envoy Robert C. Hill in which the five-time Republican ambassadorial appointee and a close friend of Richard M. Nixon talked about his own, unsuccessful, fight to keep the United States from allying with the uniformed dirty warriors (who later, during the Reagan Administration, became proxies in the fight in Central America.) During their conversation Hill promised to "tell all of this to Congress if ... put under oath. 'I'm not going to lie,' the Ambassador declared." © 2013 Martin Edwin Andersen. All rights domestic and international reserved. Description and/or document may be quoted or cited or reproduced with credit to the Martin Edwin Andersen Collection. (MORE BELOW) A new oral history by Carter human rights czar Patt Derian released on January 13, 2013 confirms my The Nation scoop (in 1987) that Henry Kissinger gave the Argentine "dirty war" generals a green light, and that five-time Republican envoy Robert C. Hill did all that he could to stop it. See pages 42-43 @http://goo.gl/eynPtt In her oral history, Patt noted: "Fred (Fernando Rondon) was there while I was talking to Hill and actually wrote a memcon (memorandum of conversation). I ripped off the top of it so that nobody would know that Fred had written it …." This is that document. The following is Kissinger's reaction to The Nation piece at that time I broke the story ... ‎"Tell me, Mr. Navasky," [Kissinger] said in his famous guttural tones, "how is it that a short article in a obscure journal such as yours about a conversation that was supposed to have taken place years ago about something that did or didn't happen in Argentina resulted in sixty people holding placards denouncing me a few months ago at the airport when I got off the plane in Copenhagen?" (In Victor S. Navasky's A Matter of Opinion (p. 298). The article was my "Kissinger and the 'Dirty War,'" published in The Nation, October 31, 1987, which broke the story about Henry Kissinger giving Argentina's "dirty warriors" the green light for their unfolding massacre.) ____________________________________________________________________ RELATED SCRIBD.COM POSTINGS: Capt. Gen. Augusto Pinochet Criminal Investigation by Italian Prosecutor: Testimony @ http://www.scribd.com/doc/197903846/Capt-Gen-Augusto-Pinochet-Criminal-Investigation-by-Italian-Prosecutor-Testimony Ambassador Robert C Hill, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the "green light" for Argentina's Dirty "War" / Kissinger responds @ http://www.scribd.com/doc/97882386/Ambassador-Robert-C-Hill-Secretary-of-State-Henry-Kissinger-and-the-green-light-for-Argentina-s-Dirty-War-Kissinger-responds Montonero (and Argentine military intelligence plant) Mario Firmenich / Letter from FBI Legal Attache Robert W. Scherrer (1) @ http://www.scribd.com/doc/97882962/Montonero-and-Argentine-military-intelligence-plant-Mario-Firmenich-Letter-from-FBI-Legal-Attache-Robert-W-Scherrer-1 Drugs played role in Isabelita's fall @ http://www.scribd.com/doc/196183018/Drugs-played-role-in-Isabelita-s-fall Is Torture an Option in War on Terror? @ http://www.scribd.com/doc/189601074/Is-Torture-an-Opt Remembering what gave rise to Argentina's mini-Nuremberg trials @ http://www.scribd.com/doc/194149407/Remembering-what-gave-rise-to-Argentina-s-mini-Nurember

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Patricia "Patt" Derian, Robert C. Hill, Et. Al., and The Argentine Dirty 'War': Draft MemCon

In April 1977, Patricia Derian--a long-time Mississippi civil rights activist and recently-inaugurated President Jimmy Carter's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs--traveled to Buenos Aires for a first-hand examination of the situation created by the predominately neo-nazi military regime's so-called dirty "war." A memorandum of conversation of her meetings that was later written by a Derian aide was in December 1985 shown to me, the author of Dossier Secreto: Argentina's Desaparecidos and the Myth of the "Dirty War," published in 1993. A key revelation contained in the memorandum was a conversation with outgoing U.S. envoy Robert C. Hill in which the five-time Republican ambassadorial appointee and a close friend of Richard M. Nixon talked about his own, unsuccessful, fight to keep the United States from allying with the uniformed dirty warriors (who later, during the Reagan Administration, became proxies in the fight in Central America.) During their conversation Hill promised to "tell all of this to Congress if ... put under oath. 'I'm not going to lie,' the Ambassador declared." © 2013 Martin Edwin Andersen. All rights domestic and international reserved. Description and/or document may be quoted or cited or reproduced with credit to the Martin Edwin Andersen Collection. (MORE BELOW) A new oral history by Carter human rights czar Patt Derian released on January 13, 2013 confirms my The Nation scoop (in 1987) that Henry Kissinger gave the Argentine "dirty war" generals a green light, and that five-time Republican envoy Robert C. Hill did all that he could to stop it. See pages 42-43 @http://goo.gl/eynPtt In her oral history, Patt noted: "Fred (Fernando Rondon) was there while I was talking to Hill and actually wrote a memcon (memorandum of conversation). I ripped off the top of it so that nobody would know that Fred had written it …." This is that document. The following is Kissinger's reaction to The Nation piece at that time I broke the story ... ‎"Tell me, Mr. Navasky," [Kissinger] said in his famous guttural tones, "how is it that a short article in a obscure journal such as yours about a conversation that was supposed to have taken place years ago about something that did or didn't happen in Argentina resulted in sixty people holding placards denouncing me a few months ago at the airport when I got off the plane in Copenhagen?" (In Victor S. Navasky's A Matter of Opinion (p. 298). The article was my "Kissinger and the 'Dirty War,'" published in The Nation, October 31, 1987, which broke the story about Henry Kissinger giving Argentina's "dirty warriors" the green light for their unfolding massacre.) ____________________________________________________________________ RELATED SCRIBD.COM POSTINGS: Capt. Gen. Augusto Pinochet Criminal Investigation by Italian Prosecutor: Testimony @ http://www.scribd.com/doc/197903846/Capt-Gen-Augusto-Pinochet-Criminal-Investigation-by-Italian-Prosecutor-Testimony Ambassador Robert C Hill, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the "green light" for Argentina's Dirty "War" / Kissinger responds @ http://www.scribd.com/doc/97882386/Ambassador-Robert-C-Hill-Secretary-of-State-Henry-Kissinger-and-the-green-light-for-Argentina-s-Dirty-War-Kissinger-responds Montonero (and Argentine military intelligence plant) Mario Firmenich / Letter from FBI Legal Attache Robert W. Scherrer (1) @ http://www.scribd.com/doc/97882962/Montonero-and-Argentine-military-intelligence-plant-Mario-Firmenich-Letter-from-FBI-Legal-Attache-Robert-W-Scherrer-1 Drugs played role in Isabelita's fall @ http://www.scribd.com/doc/196183018/Drugs-played-role-in-Isabelita-s-fall Is Torture an Option in War on Terror? @ http://www.scribd.com/doc/189601074/Is-Torture-an-Opt Remembering what gave rise to Argentina's mini-Nuremberg trials @ http://www.scribd.com/doc/194149407/Remembering-what-gave-rise-to-Argentina-s-mini-Nurember

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