Word: bertollo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next morning they learned that they had been found guilty, without trial, of inciting to riot and violating public order. They had been sentenced by the police of Station 22 to 30 days' imprisonment. Protesting, they were led into the office of Federal Police Chief Arturo Bertollo. Smilingly he offered two choices: appeal the verdict, meanwhile staying in jail, or sign a paper on his desk and receive in return a presidential pardon, which he was empowered to issue forthwith. The paper was a statement acknowledging the accusation but not their guilt. Shea and McCombe signed. Then, with Juan...
...address in the city where Captain Massolo lived with his brother. The reporter and a few "friends kept the place under watch, trailed Massolo day after day. The captain finally figured out that he was being watched; one day he went to Federal Police Chief General Arturo Bertollo, broke down, and made a full confession...
...about the whole affair, finally admitted that the arrests had been made-in an investigation of "a plot to sow confusion and dissension." Next day the federal judge charged with the investigation denounced the plot as a phony, ordered the rest of the suspects freed. Federal Police Chief Arturo Bertollo hurriedly departed for a few weeks' rest in Argentina's beautiful Andean lakes region...
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