Argentina's 'dirty war' (1976-83)
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[Kissinger approved killings where up to 30,000 people "disappeared."]

[Media Aug 28, 2004] Kissinger backed dirty war against left in Argentina

[2003] Kissinger approved Argentinian 'dirty war'

[2002] Argentina's 'dirty war' hounding Kissinger

[1987] Kissinger and The 'Dirty War' by Martin Edwin Andersen

[1995] Another torturer reveals horrors of the Dirty War in Argentina

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Quotes
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n early 1977 Robert Hill, then the U.S. Ambassador to Buenos Aires, told a top Carter Administration official that Kissinger had given his approval to the repression in which at least 9,000 people were kidnapped and secretly murdered. [1987] Kissinger and The 'Dirty War' by Martin Edwin Andersen

Henry Kissinger gave Argentina's military junta the green light to suppress political opposition at the start of the "dirty war" in 1976, telling the country's foreign minister: "If there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly," according to newly-declassified documents published yesterday. [Media Aug 28, 2004] Kissinger backed dirty war against left in Argentina

Books
The Flight: Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior by Horacio Verbitsky