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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Wed Sep 30, 2015, 04:46 PM Sep 2015

Argentina intensifies effort to get ex-spy chief, blasts US

Source: Associated Press

Sep 30, 3:04 PM EDT
Argentina intensifies effort to get ex-spy chief, blasts US

By PETER PRENGAMAN
Associated Press

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Argentina on Wednesday intensified efforts to track down a former spy chief who reportedly has taken refuge in Miami, with top government officials saying they plan to summon the American ambassador and accusing U.S. authorities of stonewalling.

Cabinet chief Anibal Fernandez said that Argentina had received no response from eight requests sent to U.S. Justice Department officials seeking information about Antonio Stiuso, a former operations chief in the intelligence agency formally known as the Secretary of State Information.

"Is the United States willing to allow a degradation that would put at risk its relationship with Argentina for a man who, according to what everybody says, has no strategic importance to the United States?" Fernandez told reporters.

Oscar Parrilli, head of the Federal Intelligence Agency, said Argentina planned to summon the American ambassador to Buenos Aires, Noah Mamet, to explain "the absolute lack of response and in some ways complicity in this situation."

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_ARGENTINA_US_FORMER_SPY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-09-30-15-04-19

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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
2. Argentina warns US to cooperate in heightened search for fugitive spy chief
Wed Sep 30, 2015, 04:52 PM
Sep 2015

Argentina warns US to cooperate in heightened search for fugitive spy chief

President Cristina Fernández said US must be ‘protecting’ Antonio Stiuso, who reportedly fled to Miami soon after star prosecutor’s mysterious killing

Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires
Wednesday 30 September 2015 16.20 EDT


Argentina’s government has stepped up efforts to track down a fugitive former spymaster who is reported to be in hiding in Miami, warning the US that it is putting its relationship with the South American country at risk.

Antonio Stiuso, a former operations chief of the now-disbanded intelligence secretariat, fled Argentina following the death in January of star prosecutor Alberto Nisman, a still-unsolved mystery which triggered a political earthquake. Nisman was found shot dead in his bathroom on 18 January, days after accusing president Cristina Fernández of conspiring to cover up alleged Iranian involvement in a 1994 bomb attack on a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people

Fernández has claimed that Nisman’s death may have been stage-managed by Stiuso in order to incriminate her and destabilize her government. Stiuso’s exact whereabouts have been unknown since shortly after he testified at the judicial inquiry into Nisman’s death. Media reports have alleged that he is in Miami.

On Wednesday, Argentina’s cabinet chief of staff Anibal Fernández said that the US had failed to respond to eight formal requests for details on the missing spy chief’s whereabouts.

More:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/30/argentina-cristina-fernandez-fugitive-spy-search-miami-antonio-stiuso

forest444

(5,902 posts)
3. Not to mention the million dollars+ Nisman received from CIA assets and Sheldon Adelson
Wed Sep 30, 2015, 05:08 PM
Sep 2015

to sit on the AMIA case for a decade, and then turn on the Cristina Kirchner administration once she finally began obtaining Iranian cooperation on investigating the case. In other words, for doing his job for him - which all the victim rights' groups agreed Nisman was simply refusing to do.

But on whose behalf? Follow the money.

http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/197501/nisman-moneylaundering-case-kicks-off-

http://buenosairesherald.com/article/199895/former-daia-director-links-nisman-to-us-billionaire-

forest444

(5,902 posts)
5. Thank you, J.M.
Wed Sep 30, 2015, 05:28 PM
Sep 2015

The Herald is really a very good resource for understanding current events in Argentina. Balanced and thorough (when so much of Argentina's media has become like Fox News these days).

All the best.

Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
6. Your links are stunning, so different from the fact-free swill our corporate media here have printed
Wed Sep 30, 2015, 08:41 PM
Sep 2015

in reference to Nisman and his "work" in Argentina.

What he seems to have been actually doing throughout is far, far different, and his associates far more unsavory, and treacherous than people were led to expect. It's astounding.

Your first link in post #3 should most definitely be read, and the second nearly knocked me out of my chair!

I have to post this excerpt from your second link. It needs to be seen everywhere:


Jorge Elbaum

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Former DAIA director links Nisman to US billionaire


Former DAIA director Jorge Elbaum has highlighted suspicious financial links between US conservative billionaire Sheldon Adelson and former AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman in an article published yesterday in the Página/12 daily.

Elbaum, who was recently elected to head The Argentines of Jewish Origin (AOJ) community group, highlighted that Nisman received an estimated US$280,000 in funds from Israel Hayom journalism group via an account linked to Hapoalim bank in Colonia, Uruguay over four years.

Elbaum claimed that this information was confirmed to him by employees of the Hapoalim bank. And that the Israel Hayom group’s executives had justified the payment to Nisman on the basis that it was for his participation in conferences.

But there isn’t any registration of his participation and Nisman did not declare the payments he received in his taxes. The Israel Hayom group (which means Day of Israel in Hebrew) is primarily funded by Adelson, who is a key partner of NML Elliot CEO Paul Singer and funds the neo-conservative FDD (Foundation for the Defence of Democracies) NGO with Singer.

Forest444's link:
http://buenosairesherald.com/article/199895/former-daia-director-links-nisman-to-us-billionaire-

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I really want to know what excuse our own corporate media can use to avoid responsibility for blocking this information from getting to U.S. news citizens. It ought to be a real doozy, after the pains they have taken to inform us every time Paul Singer brought another action against the government of Argentina.

forest444

(5,902 posts)
7. Hear, hear.
Wed Sep 30, 2015, 09:57 PM
Sep 2015

For now though, we probably can't expect anything more than the usual one-sided doublespeak from our news media.

Qué será.

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