Overview
- Acting on President Javier Milei’s order, the Secretariat of State Intelligence (SIDE) opened a formal process to declassify historical records from the 1970s and early 1980s.
- The first tranche comprises 26 official documents totaling 492 pages and an accompanying Guide on the Declassification of Historical Documents.
- SIDE says the material is organized thematically and includes resolutions, reports, memorandums, circulars and directives produced between January 1973 and December 1983.
- Initial publications largely consist of internal organizational rules, manuals and communication guidelines, and journalists report they do not yet include detailed documentation of dictatorship-era crimes.
- SIDE plans progressive online publication and later transfer of the collection to the Archivo General de la Nación, a move widely viewed within the broader political dispute over the government’s ‘memoria completa’ narrative near the coup’s 50th anniversary.