Premium Episode 75: The American PR Firm Promoting Argentina's Dictatorship feat Erin Gallagher
In the mid-70s, a worrying trend was shaping up. PR firms were being hired to whitewash dictatorships with the help of the U.S. administration and intelligence agencies. Central to the scandal? William Buckley Jr, who claimed he was ruthlessly conned into soft-pedaling the Argentine fascist regime.
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SOURCES:
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/william-f-buckley-and-argentinas-dirty-war.php
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976BUENOS05672_b.html
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/dc.html?doc=6020960-National-Security-Archive-Doc-11-CIA-cable
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB185/index.htm
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Welcome, listener, to the 75th Premium Chapter of the QAnon Anonymous Podcast, the PR firm selling Americans on Argentina's dictatorship episode.
As always, we are your hosts, Jake Brokitansky, Julian Fields, Erin Gallagher, and Travis View.
Thank you for watching.
atop a small dais.
His guests, Eduardo Roca, the former Argentine ambassador to the United States, and Robert Hill, the U.S.
ambassador to Argentina, sat in matching leather chairs to his left.
Hill leaned towards Buckley.
Buckley regarded his guest down the bridge of his nose.
a photogenic coterie of young people, probably students at Lincoln School in Buenos Aires,
where the episodes were filmed, sat on the floor. As Hill explained to Buckley and his
diplomatic counterpart that Western reporting had downplayed the brutality of Argentina's left wing
and failed to account for the positive aspects of the country's government, which was under
international condemnation for brutal murders and disappearances of civilian dissidents.
And maybe we've had poor salesmen, Mr. Buckley, dealing with Argentina.
Maybe we've had men over the years that really haven't understood this country, what their objectives are.
Why is it that the Argentina story is so widely unknown in the United States, in your opinion?
In my opinion, Mr. Buckley, I think one of the problems the Argentine government has is their lack of understanding of public relations.
We've talked about this several times with Argentine friends.
They've recently retained a well-known firm in New York to represent them, but it's a long process.
What public relations firm is going to say what to the United States to make understandable the enthusiasm with which the people of Argentina greeted Perón?
How do we handle problems of that sort?
Very good question.
Ambassador Oka?
That was during your period.
How can we deal with that issue of people liking Perón?
Beautiful stuff.
So in a bit, we're going to see who the Junta hired to do PR for them.
But to sell in their government to the American public and political class, the military regime desperately needed prominent figures to back them.
In the interview, Hill really emphasizes this point.
There's two sides of the coin.
And we're only getting one side of the coin in the United States.
And that's why your visit here is very important.
Because you're respected in this country and you're well known in international circles.
And the opinions that you convey in the United States about your impressions of Argentina are a lot more important than Ambassador Roker and myself.
Encourage your friends to come on down here.
They'll receive a warm welcome.
Sounds very kind and positive, but Hill also knows that the real argument with Leverett Buckley is his family fortune.
Mr. Buckley, I think you have to stop and analyze, is Argentina important to the United States?
And if it is, then I think we have to have a greater understanding of what they're passing through.
as they're trying to return their country to normalcy.
Now keep in mind, Mr. Buckley...
We should have a great understanding even if Argentina weren't important, wouldn't we?
As a matter of justice.
Well, as a matter of justice, that's a fine principle, yes, I would agree with you on that.
But I'm talking about the practical things of life.
We have one billion, five hundred million in investments in Argentina,
in certain areas in our country today, to talk about multinational corporations.
It's unpopular.
We have an enormous investment here.
The new government, under the Junta, With President Videla, Admiral Massera, and General Agosti, and their very fine economic minister, Martinez-Dios, they welcome foreign investors to Argentina.
They want our technicians.
Now, that investment in Argentina is important to the United States.
I believe in the free enterprise system, and profits are generated in Argentina, which we benefit by in the United States.
Your families had a long association in the oil business in foreign countries.
You know the importance of oil and Venezuela, to your own family.
Now, we have to take that into consideration.
If we're going to have policies in our country that causes us to lose that opportunity to prosper in another land, I think we're making a mistake.
So when someone says the practical things of life, what immediately comes to mind is half a billion dollars in international investment.
The practical things in life.
The day-to-day real life stuff.
The fact that your family has oil.
Right, Mr. Buckley?
We're all on this together, right Mr. Buckley?
Didn't he say a billion and a half?
He said he said a billion five hundred thousand.
I think he like might have been correcting himself downwards or maybe he's listing yeah that yeah actually because a billion five hundred thousand is like actually not that it's not that much more over a billion in the 70s this is a lot of money yes yes yeah this is an incredible amount of money so So let's get into this Videla regime hiring a PR firm thing.
Obviously we've invited Erin Gallagher, she's the author of the article we read from at the top of the episode, and she recently surfaced a four-year contract the Junta signed in June of 1976 with Burson Marsteller.
The American PR giant, in fact, was actually behind William F. Buckley Jr.' 's visit to Buenos Aires in the first place.
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