EN LA MIRA
"THE FALKLANDS PLAN"
Could it be a problem for London to reveal the CIA's plan to return the sovereignty of the South Atlantic islands to Argentina?
By Dany Smith
I was taking my cappuccino when Tom, an old
comrade who is always up to date with the affairs of the Foreing Office
and corridors that run down the corridors of Downing Street 10 when I find out
about this, "The CIA had declassified more than two million paper
documents between which came a couple of papers involving the CIA with the
conflict in the South Atlantic back in 1982. And that was not all, those papers
could pose a threat to The British arguments before the international forums.
Well, apparently not everything was in
order after all. It is only a sarcasm referred to the posture before the public
of the minister May that smiles even when some loons who cross by the front of
the Westminster shout you witch.
Since Britain left the EU and although the
Argentines have not noticed we are hanging on a thread. Brexit seems more like
a political nightmare than a national claim seeking to revive the glories of
the British empire. Unemployment increases per month and the average salary
barely reaches to pay rents, immigration on the rise and with it the suspicions
of "Daesh" leaks, invasion of privacy by the excuse of terrorism
stinks and Teresa May smiles as if she were in a party; At least in front of
the cameras.
Thatcher & May, is the same? |
Tom told me a day later that the
declassification of the two million CIA documents by an executive order of
Barak Obama was made public, there was not much alteration in the government
environment until, a call from the headquarters in Lambeth, London in the early
hours of January 19 caused runs on both Downing Street 10 and the Foreing
Office. The same minister came urgently to a meeting with Sir Alan Duncan and
the head of the liaison office of the MI-6 with the CIA where you could see the
smiley face of May and his concern to know How much do the Argentinians know
about this?
Apparently the Americans did not do it
badly, or at least not to harm London. It is even known that this mountain of
liberated documents was garbage that had to be thrown out at any moment and
that Obama would happen as a coup before leaving the White House, presenting it
as a sign that "America has nothing to hide." Even the outgoing
director of the agency John Brennan should have enjoyed fulfilling is that
order that left the hated outsider Donald Trump a problem to solve.
That plan of mediation between London and
Buenos Aires had been elaborated by the then head of the CIA Henry Rowen that
supposedly had commissioned to him the White House by the risk that represented
the confrontation between two allies within the same hemisphere. In the Ronald
Reagan election he was on the British side but he could not allow a clumsy Meg
to open a gap to the influence of the "Warsaw Pact" that some
Argentine generals were seeking.
According to some versions of the time, London
was aware of the military preparations of Argentina and even sought the perfect
provocation in the Georgian islands to bite.
But in turn, the Pentagon and the White House
were informed of the British intentions that from the standpoint of Ronald
Reagan and his cabinet could jeopardize not world peace but the integrity of
NATO. There had even been hot secret conversations between several intelligence
officials who tried to condition London not to continue with the charade that
had between its objectives to raise the level of popular support to the
declining management of Margaret Hilda Thatcher.
According to reserved sources, a year
earlier in 1981 there were rumors that something was being prepared in South
America and that it would bring good profits to London and its partners in the
region. Do not forget that by that time coal and oil deposits had already been
detected in the Falklands and in their surrounding waters and British companies
like SHELL Co were interested in operating in the area without having to pay
canon or permits to Argentina.
Such pieces of information had been
collected even if you did not believe it at private parties and meetings at
European embassies, in which there were Western intelligence informants and
also KGB of the USSR stating without a doubt a controversy within the Atlantic
Alliance itself.
In some of those indiscreet talks between
Scots and expensive cigars, there were bad calculations to be seen later in the
war. Some came to predict that the Argentines did not have the guts to respond
to what was planned; Others try to be more technical analysis and refer to not
having Forces conditioned to be able to face the Royal Navy of Her Majesty and
others came to cast doubt on the human capacity of His men not to resist the
pressure of playing in the big leagues. Boobies! The facts show that Argentines
power more than any prognosis made by military brains and their intelligence
colleagues. As recognized by Brigadier Julian Thompson in charge of ground
forces in the war as Royal Navy Admiral Sandy Woodward "the Argentines
were about to win" and if that had happened, it would have made some sense
for those CIA plans Which would have saved Thatcher's head but not his
government.