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Crisis in the AFI: Justice points to Cristina Caamaño, Stiuso is still angry and the organization suffers a collective crisis

2021-07-04T13:56:12.690Z


Judge Servini discovered that the intervener sent the secret documents of the body of her own accord. Dozens of agents testify for the Nisman case and say they do not have legal coverage.


Nicolas Wiñazki

07/03/2021 11:03 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 07/03/2021 23:03

Many of Argentina's professional spies have never lived

under a collective crisis situation as in recent months

.

They are men and women trained to live with false identities.

The essence of his trade is secrecy and confidentiality.

They are prohibited by law from counting or disclosing the information they analyze or collect in their work.

Even his own family.

There are cases in which even your closest relatives do not really know what they work for.

They are trained to withstand missions under extreme stress.

Some have been living or living “infiltrated” in foreign cities for years, and in secret and treacherous contact with potentially terrorist organizations that could have Argentina as a target for their violence.

But the

enemy came from the least expected place.

Your own workplace.

The head of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI), Dr. Cristina Caamaño Iglesias Paíz, sent to a judicial file instructed by the Justice of Lomas de Zamora the so-called "Protocol Record Book" of her body.

They are annotations in which

the movements, plans, personal situations, dismissals, retirement requests and above all who really are the agents

who work in secret until that moment

were recorded

.

This material was incorporated into a judicial investigation that must determine whether illegal espionage was committed during Mauricio Macri's tenure at the AFI.

Around 80 involved in that file had access to state secrets.

They were filtered to K media.

The crisis among the spies still continues.

And the head of the Argentine Intelligence ended up being indicted in another judicial case in which she is accused of committing at least three serious crimes:

disclosure of secrets, abuse of authority and breach of the duties of a public official

.

The judge of federal court 1, María Servini, faced with different evidences and documentary evidence that appear in her investigation, summoned Caamaño Iglesias Paíz for an investigative statement for July 16 at 11 in the morning.

Those who denounced her are agents or former agents of the AFI whose name cannot be revealed, who felt affected after they revealed who they were, where they work, how, among other details.

Argentine espionage

burns.

There are more reasons for this disturbing scenario.

In addition to the call to investigate Caamaño Iglesias Paíz,

another nuisance for the spies is added

.

Several of them are testifying as witnesses in the case that seek to determine how the AFI, and some of its employees, acted during the day the prosecutor in the AMIA case, Alberto Nisman, was found dead in their apartment.

Justice, in that other investigation, seeks to know which agents worked on dates after and before that night in which power also trembled.

Former prosecutor Cristina Caamaño with President Alberto Fernández at the beginning of last year.

As if that were not enough,

the most famous spy of the local Intelligence

, the always powerful former head of General Operations of the AFI,

Antonio Stiuso

, presented a brief in a case in which he had denounced the current Vice President Cristina Fernández;

the current Vice Minister of Justice and previously Undersecretary of Intelligence, Juan Martín Mena;

as well as his superior, Oscar Parrilli, among other defendants.

According to a prosecutor, Stiuso could have been the victim of a plan hatched by the authorities of the previous K administration to persecute both him and his family.

Another prosecutor who was investigating that case, Carlos Rívolo, dismissed all the accused.

Stiuso then decided not to appeal that measure.

In a letter in which he criticizes the judicial authorities that acted in the case, focused especially on Rivolo.

He released words that generated intrigue in the political power

interested in the mysterious absolute enemy of the Kirchners.

Stiuso admitted that he would not appeal the dismissal.

He added that this meant contributing "a grain of sand to leave the past behind."

He described it as fallacious and full of lies.

He left several messages settled:

"Leaving the past behind is not forgetting or denying what happened."

Did Stiuso let it transcend so the Kirchners agreed? 


Sources who know him assure that

his great anger is with the Justice

because he considers that due to political changes he dropped the investigation regarding the

alleged persecution of him and his family

.

And they reconstruct what he explains when they suggest that he could have approached the Government.

"Are they all crazy?

Who would think?

Read well what I wrote ”

, would say the spy with the longest career in the national secret service.

In the Public Prosecutor's Office they said that it was not worth expressing an opinion but denied that this opinion had a political motive.

Not even an agent with more than thirty years of career in the Intelligence of Argentina experienced the paradox that it is a spy chief like Caamano Iglesias Paíz who is responsible for the fact that, due to negligence that

perhaps it is finally a crime, the book of AFI secret minutes.

The head of that body has already defended herself in the case that Servini leads against her by presenting a letter in which she

defines

any type of lack of care about what should never have been known about the actions of the entire AFI between 2016 and 2018 in a lack of care about these data that

the prosecutor investigating the possible macrista espionage, Cecilia Incardona,

had to take care

.

Clarín

is in a position to affirm, according to sources who know the backroom of this file of extreme sensitivity for National Security, that Caamaño Iglesias Paíz sent the AFI “Minute Book” to the Lomas de Zamora court through Cross-out free photocopies to avoid undue leaks,

without instructions on how to take extreme care of everything

that eventually transpired on his subordinates.

Another important fact that could affect his procedural situation is that the Justice of Lomas de Zamora had

not even asked him to deliver those secret acts

.

They only asked him in a formal way if he could deliver “a report in case he has books of minutes of the resolutions decreed in the mentioned period (2016-2018).

In the investigation of Servini and his team, with the support of the prosecutor who promoted the action, Eduardo Taiano, it also appears that

the same day

that Caamaño Iglesias Paíz received the specific request for a defendant who could be named in those minutes, he sent the entire "Book" of confidential actions of spies.

That is, before a request for certain information, he

sent a lot, and more.

At least that is what they suspected, and now confirmed with documentary evidence, who promoted the complaint against him.

They are agents or ex of the AFI, whose names cannot be reviewed by law.

Thus,

the opposite

of what Caamaño Iglesias Paíz ended up generating is fulfilled.

The dissemination of the information from the AFI's "Minute Book" generated, according to the authorities of the Justice, that the security of the members of the organization whose names ended up being known; the strategic trips that spies made to different parts of the world; secret agreements with other foreign intelligence agencies were also made public; and above all, it became known who were the "infiltrators" in Middle Eastern countries, for example,

where the terrorist group Hezbollah operates, for example.

Those who know the methods of espionage add that the information on who retired, and when, could

now be the target of other foreign secret services

that could try to obtain information on how the national intelligence acted in the past, and on what issues.

In the case in which the head of the AFI is accused of serious crimes, there would also be the testimony of an agent who assured that

his family found out what his real job was because it appears in the minutes on a certain date

with a work trip confidential: the spy had hidden from his family what his profession was and had argued that in those days he had taken vacations.

There are also members of the AFI who were assigned as official or "undercover" agents in different diplomatic posts in other nations.

There are two more cases that show the extreme complexity of the perhaps criminal negligence of the AFI chief:

a spy decided to go live in another country that he considers safer so as not to be attacked by his "spies",

who did not know his true identity. .

And on the contrary: there is evidence of former agents who live abroad and declared that they are analyzing returning to Argentina

for fear

that the Government of their current place of residence will consider them forever a suspect.

The spies are very upset.

More and more are retiring.

The confusion is total.

Did any of them state anything prominent in the Nisman case?

Clarín

learned that the agents appear in court

without legal support from the AFI

.

One of the respondents stated, for example, that the telephones that were distributed to the "operational" officers, on the street, were always random numbers.

It could thus become more complex who was using which cell phone the day Nisman appeared with a bullet in the head.

Is the statement true?

What will happen to Stiuso and his quarrel with a prosecutor and a judge?

And with the Kirchners?

"Forgetting is not forgiving," says his writing.

Will Caamano Iglesias Paíz continue to be the chief of agents who lost respect for her?

The writer John Le Carré, a former member of the English secret service, included in his best seller

The Spy Who Came from the Cold

 this phrase: "

The work of espionage has only one moral law: it is justified by the results

.

"

Source: clarin

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