Raúl Guglielminetti
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Raúl Antonio Guglielminetti (November 2, 1941 – January 21, 2026) was an Argentine intelligence officer and convicted criminal.
Guglielminetti was born in Buenos Aires on November 2, 1941. During the 1960s he was incorporated as a civilian agent into the Army Intelligence Service, without having passed through any military institution, where he used the alias of Ángel Rogelio Guastavino and called himself "Major".[1]
As a cover for his tasks as a spy he had a professional card from the publication Sur and worked at LU5, a radio station with a large audience in Neuquén, as a sports journalist. When Héctor José Cámpora became president in March 1973, leftist Peronist groups took over the radio and fired him.[1]
On March 25, 1975, when he was hired by the National University of Comahue. During the Argentine military dictatorship (1976–1983) he belonged to the Task Force that was based in the clandestine detention center known as Automotores Orletti, related to operations of the Condor Plan, under the command of Aníbal Gordon. On the day of the coup, March 24, 1976, Guglielminetti arrested teacher Orlando Balbo, who was deaf due to the torture inflicted.[2]
Starting in 1978, he led the Foreign Task Group (GTE) that organized the Argentine military regime's collaboration with the dirty war in Central America, known as Operation Charlie.[3] He was a member of the "Aníbal Gordon gang", for which he was linked to the kidnapping and murder of businessman and banker Osvaldo Sivak in 1985.[4]