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ALEJANDRO AGUSTÍN LANUSSE. Lieutenant General ® of the Argentine Army. President of the Nation “de facto” between March 1971 and May 1973. During his “de facto” presidency, the Secretary of Press and Diffusion of the Presidency was the journalist Edgardo Sajón, who disappeared on April 1, 1977. When Sajón was disappeared, he was working as Technical Manager of the newspaper La Opinión, whose Director, Jacobo Timerman, was kidnapped days later and whose testimony can be seen in this Exercise for Memory. Lanusse, already retired, made unsuccessful efforts to find out the whereabouts of Sajón from lower-ranking active-duty military officers, a situation that offended him greatly. On December 20, 1978, the official of the Argentine embassy in France, Elena A. Holmberg, disappeared. She was the cousin of the witness Lanusse. Her body was found a few days later in Tigre but was only identified on January 11 of the following year. In this case, too, Lanusse complained to the dictators of the same armed force from which he was retired. The perpetrators of the kidnapping and murder of Elena Holberg would have been Navy officers, following disagreements with the sailors who were assigned to the "Paris Pilot Center", based in the same embassy where Holmberg was an official. For both cases, in 1985 he testified at the trial of the former Commanders. Alejandro A. Lanusse died in August 1996. Follow us on our networks ⬇️ Instagram and Meta: @PersonasDesaparecidasBA Twitter: @PerDesBsAs#46añosdelgolpe #46añosdelgolpe #Argentina1985 #Memory #Truth #Justice #ExerciseforMemory #MemoryTruthAndJustice #NeverAgain #Son30Mil #redesdememoria