Defence minister Agustín Rossi has affirmed that secret minutes dating back to the civic-military dictatorship of 1976-83 will be available for the public to read and study, while admitting that he did not know why the documents had not been discovered previously.
Speaking in an interview today, Rossi explained that «once [the documents] are 100 percent ordered,» they would be «freely accessible for anybody.» The politician also ruled out any prospect of the government filtering information held in the files.
«We are still analysing the material but the minutes of meetings prior to the Junta, in which the three Secretary-Generals of each military force met in order to decide the actions that the Junta would later carry out, are included amongst other things,» Rossi affirmed.
The minister also asserted that the release of the documents was not an effort by the government to link the Clarín Group with Papel Prensa and the dictatorship, therefore weakening the media giant.
«The truth is that we have never tried to take advantage of the Papel Prensa issue; that was what the military Junta did,» he fired.
«Between September 1976 and November 1977 there are 13 minutes which discuss the matter. From a total of 36 minutes, 13 represents more than a third. That is significant.
«It is also clear that for the Junta, Papel Prensa was a part of the same theme as the detention of [ex-owners] the Graiver family… this appears clearly in the minutes,» he concluded.
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