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FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81) indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) (Mount Clipping in Space Below) 8/2s/83 Date: Title: Character: or Ciassitlcation: Dupont releases Submitting Office: Indexing: Ietter to Salvi A statement distributed to the press yesterday by Gregorio. Dupont and Raul Ibarra was a copy of an anonymous letter sent to Judge Osear Salvi which had apparently aroused Patricio Kelly's interest in *Anibal Gordon". Dupont said that the statement had been drawn up by officers of the Buenos Aires Provincial Police force The letter traced the career of Gordon and other officers, non-commissioned officers, and civilians involved in the "dirty war" and which, it said, had aiso engaged in extortion, kidnapping for ransom, and the disposal of "booty" -property stolen from the homes of the various groups' victims. According to the anonymous letter the police could not subordinated to the military. Among the police or military activities as well as *'fighting subversion'' were the Navy's Meehanical School, Batallion 601 Intelligence, and thfe First. Army Corps, It also says that a police officer who arrested menbers of the Gordon gang when they kidnapped a businessman was fired, while the gang members were released. The author or authors of the letter accused the Gordon gang of being involved in the kidnapping and murders of Marcelo Dupont, Fernando Branca, Elena Holmberg all three allegedly on the direct orders of Massera; the kidnapping, stripping, and robbery of three British by the Panamerican Highway); and the murder of Dalmiro Flores during last December's "march for democracy." Frequently mentioned is the chief of the Buenos Aires Police force, General Eernando Verplaetsen, who is accused I of running aracket in smuggled cigarettes from Uruguay. and the choice of union leader Lorenzo Miguel to be the next commander-in-chief of the army. Miguel and Verplaetsen meet frequently, according to the siaiement, with Genera! Ramon Camps often joining them. AUG 25 1983 MONTFMIDEO f8I/DOJ