Selected records of the Intelligence Archive of the Buenos Aires Police Department (DIPBA)
Extent and Medium
555 digital files, PDF
Creator(s)
- Dirección de Inteligencia de la Policía de la provincia de Buenos Aires
Biographical History
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
Archival History
Comisión Provincial por la Memoria (CPM)
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Comisión Provincial por la Memoria, CPM (Provincial Memorial Commission), Argentina.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in September 2019.
Scope and Content
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.
System of Arrangement
Organized in six groups ("Mesa"): 1. "Mesa A." Record on political activities, on students, government and electoral levels of different jurisdictions. 2. "Mesa B": Records of activities of trade unions, and manufacturing; 3. "Mesa C": Records on people, organizations and activities qualified by the DIPPBA as communists. Part of the documentation corresponds to material produced by intelligence agencies that preceded the DIPPBA; 4. "Mesa De": Consists of two subgroups: Social (cooperating associations, libraries, clubs) and Religious (religious entities and members of the ecclesiastical hierarchy); 5. "Mesa Ds": Records of the activity classified as subversive; analysis of armed organizations, warrants, lists of detainees, raids, whereabouts, among others; 6. "Mesa Referencia" Files on various topics that do not fit in the other groups, or contains information relating to several groups. Most of the files are arranged thematically and some are personal files.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Comisión Provincial por la Memoria (CPM)
Subjects
- Police reports--Argentina--History--20th century.
- Antisemitism--Argentina--History--20th century.
- Jews--Argentina--History--20th century.
- Argentina--Politics and government--20th century.
- Police patrol--Surveillance operations--Argentina.
Genre
- Memorandums.
- Document
- Reports.