La Dirección de Inteligencia de la Policía de la Provincia de Buenos Aires y el espionaje a la movilización indígena en 1992

Abstract

The Intelligence Boureau of the Police of the Buenos Aires Province (DIPPBA) was created in 1956 and dissolved in 1998. The DIPPBA guided its actions through the articulation of a logic of national order, aimed at sustaining the proscription of Peronism, and another of international order, in relation to the National Security Doctrine and the creation of an internal enemy in the framework of the Cold War. In this article we analyze the documentary collection of the DIPPBA to point out this source’s wealth for understanding the policies of repression of the indigenous movement in the second half of the 20th century. In particular, we focus on the records produced by the monitoring and intelligence actions regarding the celebrations and counter-celebrations motivated by the V Centennial of the Conquest of America, in 1992. These are files that gather information about different intelligence actions deployed in the province of Buenos Aires to spy, especially, those who showed a critical position in relation to the arrival of Columbus in America, but also, surprisingly or not, those who reproduced the celebratory tone of the anniversary. Indeed, the DIPPBA attributed to the activities and groups that were observed the gestation of opposite or revolutionary fronts with international support and linked to terrorism. We also observe the discomfort generated by indigenous organizations and claims insofar as they do not respond to the collective stereotypes to which they are usually reduced.

Keywords

• Indigenous
• movement
• organizations
• repression
• intelligence