Dead prosecutor was a 'soldier' of ex-Argentine spy boss

[Judi Lynn]

Dead prosecutor was a 'soldier' of ex-Argentine spy boss
By Sarah Marsh and Eliana Raszewski
BUENOS AIRES Fri Feb 6, 2015 11:15am EST


(Reuters) - The Argentine prosecutor found dead last month was the unwitting "soldier" of former counterintelligence chief Antonio Stiusso, who was seeking revenge for his firing, President Cristina Fernandez's chief of staff said. Anibal Fernandez, who is not related to the president, told Reuters late on Thursday that it was clear years ago that Stiusso called the shots in his relationship with prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who had been investigating the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center.

Nisman was found slumped in a pool of blood, a single bullet to the head, on Jan. 18, days after filing a 300-page document accusing the president of plotting to whitewash his findings that Iran had backed the attack. But the president's chief of staff said it was clear the document had not been written by a legal expert.

"I am convinced Nisman did not write the charges," Fernandez said in an interview in his wood-paneled office inside the Casa Rosada, the seat of government, late on Thursday. "In his role as a soldier in Stiusso's army, he ended up signing them." Fernandez recalled a 2006 meeting with Nisman over the prosecutor's reluctance to travel to a meeting with Interpol. Stiusso was also present. "You realized who was the commander and who was the commanded," Fernandez said.

Stiusso was one of the Intelligence Secretariat's most powerful yet enigmatic operatives. Although his career spanned 42 years, only one photograph of the divorced father-of-two is publicly known.

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[forest444]

1. Definitely a Person of Interest in the case

He ran Nisman's (mostly unauthorized) wiretaps, persuaded him to dismiss his security detail, and had a major bone to pick with the administration over being fired (from an agency with a history of retaliating over presidents who eye them for reform). Means, motive, and disposition.

An earlier article mentioned that Stiusso is believed to be in the U.S. (probably in the Miami area). If so I trust Secretary Kerry will have him promptly tuned over if an extradition request is filed, just as Reagan's Secretary of State George Schultz did with Dirty War psychopaths López Rega and Suárez Mason in 1987.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Looked for info. on Suarez, saw that at one time he worked as an agent for the C.I.A.

in Central America, if I read it right. What a career, torturing, murdering at home, and working for the C.I.A. in Central American countries.

I also saw that not only did the Navy and Air Force in Argentina throw victims out into the water from airplanes, sometimes they also threw them out burning as they fell through the sky. That would have scared the holy bejesus out of people standing on land, and would have promoted the shock and scare element enough to paralyze multitudes of people with fear.

Absolutely unbelievable.

What a shame those two men ever stood on the surface of this planet. Those right-wingers left the world a whole lot worse off for their time spent here.

[bemildred]

3. I would call him a goober, or tool, but all right, soldier. nt

[Judi Lynn]

4. - Dead prosecutor was a 'goober' of ex-Argentine spy boss - Kinda catchy! n/t

[bemildred]

5. He just looks like a true believer to me.

I don't know what happened to him, but it looks like he got burned by someone he trusted. I am not much inclined to think he killed himslef out of remorse, or that sort of thing.