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The Batallón de Inteligencia 601 (
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for "601 Intelligence Battalion") was a special
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of the
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whose structure was set up in the late 1970s, active in the
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and
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, and disbanded in 2000. Its personnel infiltrated and collected information on guerrilla groups and
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organisations; and coordinated killings,
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s and other abuses. The Batallón was under the orders of
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and ultimately reported to junta leader
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.New Documents Describe Key Death Squad Under Former Army Chief Galtieri
US National Security Archive
The unit took part in
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's '' Cocaine Coup'' in
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in 1980 and trained
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units in Lepaterique base in
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in the 1980s. It also trained members of the Honduran Battalion 316.


Declassification of documents

On 1 January 2010, President Cristina Fernández of
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ordered that documents pertaining to Batallón 601 be
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. The documents presented before federal Judge Ariel Lijo contain data on 3,952 civilians, from university professors to concierges, and 345 army personnel who worked for Battalion 601, according to the director of the National Archive of Memory.


See also

* Agustín Feced * Archivo Nacional de la Memoria *
Argentine Army The Argentine Army ( es, Ejército Argentino, EA) is the Army, land force branch of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic and the senior military service of Argentina. Under the Argentine Constitution, the president of Argentina is the comman ...
*
Dirty War The Dirty War ( es, Guerra sucia) is the name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of Argentina ( es, dictadura cívico-militar de Argentina, links=no) for the period of state terrorism in Argentina from 1974 to 1983 a ...
*
National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (Spanish: ', CONADEP) was an Argentine organization created by President Raúl Alfonsín on 15 December 1983, shortly after his inauguration, to investigate the fate of the ''desaparecidos'' (v ...
*
Operation Charly Operation Charly ( es, Operación Charly, links=no), was allegedly the code-name given to a program during the 1970s and 1980s undertaken by the junta in Argentina with the objective of providing military and counterinsurgency assistance to righ ...
*
Operation Condor Operation Condor ( es, link=no, Operación Cóndor, also known as ''Plan Cóndor''; pt, Operação Condor) was a United States–backed campaign of political repression and state terror involving intelligence operations and assassination of op ...
* Army Intelligence Service


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Declassified US Department of State files
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