"Tex" Harris, who died in February, was "the first official to document the disappearance of thousands of Argentine citizens during the military dictatorship," the National Security Archive writes in a remembrance.https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/2020-03-09/memoriam-tex-harris#.Xm1LIJG2KA0.twitter …
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Harris, who served as a human rights officer at the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires, recorded the "names, dates and the nature of the atrocities,"
@NSArchive writes, and used that information to pressure the U.S. government to "step up pressure on the junta."1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread
In the "Dirty War," he "opened the U.S. Embassy's doors to relatives of victims and human rights advocacy groups, counseling and consoling hundreds of Argentines who came to ask for U.S. support to find their loved ones who had been detained and disappeared," @NSArchive writes.
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