A man who used to live there, study there, was driving with his girlfriend whom he later married, away from their university, driving past the place, and they saw a guy who was a student in a class they shared walking into the place, and they discovered he had actually been a spy for the dictatorship.
I never forgot hearing of that event. How chilling.
DU'ers here at the time read about the place being made into a museum, and open for the public to be able to see the very rooms where perhaps some of their friends or relatives, or their friends or relatives were terrorized and broken.
I would imagine they've been waiting until they could get a fascist into office and use him to destroy this historic landmark to make it so much easier to pretend to future generations it never happened, to make it easier to fool people all over again.
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The "Blond Angel of Death," Alfredo Astiz, finally sent to jail
in later years for a life sentence, after murdering 2 nuns at
the Naval Mechanic School. They had belonged to the Madres
de la Plaza, human rights group whose loved ones had been
murdered already.
Before prison. [/center]
Astiz: Former navy captain Astiz boasted of his dictatorship-era crimes in a magazine interview in 1998, saying he was "the best-trained man in Argentina to kill journalists and politicians."
"I'm not sorry for anything," Astiz said in the interview.
He infiltrated human rights groups whose members were later kidnapped and was convicted in absentia in Europe of killing two French nuns held at the ESMA.
More:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/5864316/Life-sentence-for-Argentine-Blond-Angel-of-Death
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