Selected records of the Intelligence Archive of the Buenos Aires Police Department (DIPBA)

Copyright Holder: Comisión Provincial por la Memoria (CPM) The records consist of surveillance of the Jewish community in Argentina by the Intelligence Directorate of the Buenos Aires Province Police, 1956-1998. This collection contains records relating to the surveillance of the Jewish community in Argentina by the Intelligence Directorate of the Buenos Aires Province Police, 1956-1998, and relating to former Nazis in Argentina, nationalists and right wing activities, and Antisemitism. The DIPPBA- Directorate of Intelligence of the Police of the province of Buenos Aires - was created in 1956 with the name of Central of Intelligence and dissolved in 1998, in the context of a reform of the Buenos Aires police. Although since its creation it had a constant task linked to the production of information and intelligence action, during the dictatorship it became an important device of state terrorism in the province of Buenos Aires The self-appointed Liberating Revolution established by Federal Intervention Decree 3603 of December 29, 1955, the dissolution of the Public Order Directorate and appointed to a member of the Armed Forces as an auditor to reorganize the unit. The creation of DIPPBA is explained in the scenario of the proscription of Peronism and the redefinition of security forces in the context of the Cold War