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...They were unconscious. we stripped them, and when the flight commander gave the order, we opened the door and threw them out, naked, one by one. That is the story, and nobody can deny it." With these words, former Argentine navy Captain Adolfo Francisco Scilingo, 48, spilled one of the dirtiest secrets of the "dirty war" that raged in his country from the mid-1970s through the early '80s. Human-rights workers and relatives of at least 9,000 Argentines who "disappeared" under military rule have long contended that the missing were systematically murdered by troops acting on orders from...
Booking Agent. In Rome, an extraordinary Argentine emissary had already begun the selecting. He was the Rev. Jose Clemente Silva, member of the Salesian order and brother of President Peron's military secretary. His mission: to find in Italy and Spain (while Diplomat Adolfo Scilingo scouted the rest of Europe) the 250,000 workers, preferably skilled factory hands, whom Juan Peron needs for his five-year plan...