QAA - Premium Episode 75: The American PR Firm Promoting Argentina's Dictatorship feat Erin Gallagher Aired: 2020-05-16 Duration: 06:39 === Argentina's Complex Relationship (06:23) === [00:00:02] I am 100% behind Q. He's working for the President. [00:00:06] He's working for our country. [00:00:09] Alien life, like pedophiles, you know, and it just takes to tie all of that together. [00:00:15] Welcome, listener, to the 75th Premium Chapter of the QAnon Anonymous Podcast, the PR firm selling Americans on Argentina's dictatorship episode. [00:00:23] As always, we are your hosts, Jake Brokitansky, Julian Fields, Erin Gallagher, and Travis View. [00:00:28] Thank you for watching. [00:00:47] atop a small dais. [00:00:49] His guests, Eduardo Roca, the former Argentine ambassador to the United States, and Robert Hill, the U.S. [00:00:54] ambassador to Argentina, sat in matching leather chairs to his left. [00:00:59] Hill leaned towards Buckley. [00:01:00] Buckley regarded his guest down the bridge of his nose. [00:01:03] a photogenic coterie of young people, probably students at Lincoln School in Buenos Aires, [00:01:08] where the episodes were filmed, sat on the floor. As Hill explained to Buckley and his [00:01:11] diplomatic counterpart that Western reporting had downplayed the brutality of Argentina's left wing [00:01:17] and failed to account for the positive aspects of the country's government, which was under [00:01:20] international condemnation for brutal murders and disappearances of civilian dissidents. [00:01:25] And maybe we've had poor salesmen, Mr. Buckley, dealing with Argentina. [00:01:39] Maybe we've had men over the years that really haven't understood this country, what their objectives are. [00:01:45] Why is it that the Argentina story is so widely unknown in the United States, in your opinion? [00:01:56] In my opinion, Mr. Buckley, I think one of the problems the Argentine government has is their lack of understanding of public relations. [00:02:06] We've talked about this several times with Argentine friends. [00:02:09] They've recently retained a well-known firm in New York to represent them, but it's a long process. [00:02:17] 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? [00:02:27] How do we handle problems of that sort? [00:02:33] Very good question. [00:02:34] Ambassador Oka? [00:02:36] That was during your period. [00:02:39] How can we deal with that issue of people liking Perón? [00:02:44] Beautiful stuff. [00:02:45] So in a bit, we're going to see who the Junta hired to do PR for them. [00:02:49] But to sell in their government to the American public and political class, the military regime desperately needed prominent figures to back them. [00:02:57] In the interview, Hill really emphasizes this point. [00:02:59] There's two sides of the coin. [00:03:03] And we're only getting one side of the coin in the United States. [00:03:06] And that's why your visit here is very important. [00:03:10] Because you're respected in this country and you're well known in international circles. [00:03:15] 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. [00:03:24] Encourage your friends to come on down here. [00:03:27] They'll receive a warm welcome. [00:03:30] Sounds very kind and positive, but Hill also knows that the real argument with Leverett Buckley is his family fortune. [00:03:46] Mr. Buckley, I think you have to stop and analyze, is Argentina important to the United States? [00:03:54] And if it is, then I think we have to have a greater understanding of what they're passing through. [00:03:59] as they're trying to return their country to normalcy. [00:04:03] Now keep in mind, Mr. Buckley... [00:04:04] We should have a great understanding even if Argentina weren't important, wouldn't we? [00:04:08] As a matter of justice. [00:04:09] Well, as a matter of justice, that's a fine principle, yes, I would agree with you on that. [00:04:14] But I'm talking about the practical things of life. [00:04:17] We have one billion, five hundred million in investments in Argentina, [00:04:22] in certain areas in our country today, to talk about multinational corporations. [00:04:28] It's unpopular. [00:04:29] We have an enormous investment here. [00:04:32] 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. [00:04:45] They want our technicians. [00:04:47] Now, that investment in Argentina is important to the United States. [00:04:51] I believe in the free enterprise system, and profits are generated in Argentina, which we benefit by in the United States. [00:04:58] Your families had a long association in the oil business in foreign countries. [00:05:02] You know the importance of oil and Venezuela, to your own family. [00:05:07] Now, we have to take that into consideration. [00:05:09] 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. [00:05:20] So when someone says the practical things of life, what immediately comes to mind is half a billion dollars in international investment. [00:05:28] The practical things in life. [00:05:30] The day-to-day real life stuff. [00:05:31] The fact that your family has oil. [00:05:32] Right, Mr. Buckley? [00:05:34] We're all on this together, right Mr. Buckley? [00:05:36] Didn't he say a billion and a half? [00:05:38] He said he said a billion five hundred thousand. [00:05:41] 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. [00:05:58] 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. === Subscribe For Access (00:28) === [00:06:10] The American PR giant, in fact, was actually behind William F. Buckley Jr.' 's visit to Buenos Aires in the first place. [00:06:17] You have been listening to a sample of a premium episode of QAnon Anonymous. [00:06:21] We don't run any advertising on the show, and we'd like to keep it that way. 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