Espionage in Argentina generates public debate

The detection of espionage in Argentina has generated a debate about the privacy of a small number of individuals in this nation.

The arrest of a former police officer accused by the Argentine justice system of being an inorganic agent of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) was the key clue.

This discovery led to the detection of espionage in Argentina. In total, there would be about 1,196 intelligence reports on thousands of targets, including President Alberto Fernández, presidential candidates Sergio Massa and Javier Milei, journalists, politicians, judges, union leaders, and even religious figures, carried out for almost 10 years.

This report includes the preparation of reports with intimate data, sexual orientation, property or political affiliation, hidden cameras, and even the use of drones.

This is stated in a 169-page report prepared by federal prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita, which systematizes the information that emerged from the computer and cell phones of agent Ariel Zanchetta.

Espionage in Argentina

According to the informant, this espionage plan in Argentina was directed from the AFI group with people who responded to Fernando Pocino, former director of Information Meeting of the AFI, and former Army Chief César Milani.

Both supposedly integrated the Kirchnerist wing of the AFI, facing the former operative chief of the then Secretariat of Intelligence (SIDE) Antonio “Jaime” Stiuso, who was displaced by Cristina Fernández in 2013.

Zanchetta claims that in 2009 he began to work sporadically with Sub Mayor Pereyra Joaquín, since he had been introduced to him by Subcrio bonaerense Dipiuppo, Ariel.

“I did fieldwork and info in the old-fashioned way since I have had contacts at all levels and a network of informants since I worked in the intelligence area of the Federal Police in Capital Federal since the early 90s with politicians, judges, businessmen, journalists, and officials of all kinds,” he says

Also, other data that is not reproduced in the report, and is kept secret, so as not to invade the privacy of those spied on or reveal their sexual preferences or love affairs with which they sought to discredit them in this enormous espionage network in Argentina.

Another spy who wrote to Zanchetta from the address “bolddeblackberry@gmail.com” asked him to accredit the solvency of a target, and told him about another subject spied on: “I need everything, especially the bad things he did in his life.”

Zanchetta responded with an intelligence report on each one.

In another email, they instructed him to make “hair and beard,” referring to the level of detail that was intended for the search.

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