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Captain of Frigate ® of the Argentine Navy. The hearing is presided over by Dr. León Carlos Arslanian. Second video: fault from the beginning to 28 ". New fault 4' 45" - 5' 08" ℹ️ Captain of Frigate ® Jorge BUSICO in 1976 was assigned to the School of Mechanics of the Navy (ESMA). Since 1973 he worked in the teaching area. He was not a member of the task force that perpetrated the illegal repression; his testimony provides an insight into what was happening at the school, in one of whose buildings the clandestine detention center operated. On March 24, 1976, Búsico was ordered to arrest Pedro Eladio Vásquez, an official in the sports area of the deposed government. The commission under his command carried out the operation legally. But he crossed paths with another commission from the ESMA that, on the contrary, operated illegally under the command of Captain Salvio O. Menéndez. Búsico was warned that the operation should be covert, to which the witness expressed his disagreement. The Director of the ESMA was then Captain Rubén Jacinto Chamorro. Búsico saw and recorded the departure of repressors and their arrival with kidnapped and hooded people. He describes the officers' casino from a logical functional perspective and not from what was later described as a torture center. He highlights the transformation that took place among the personnel, the advent of new ways of operating, concepts and jargon, such as the request for a "free area", "go up", he began to hear new words like "suck", "machine", etc. The witness's feeling was that within the ESMA life had lost value. In addition to this type of description, Búsico describes the climate that prevailed among the sailors of the ESMA, and their discomfort at not sharing a position related to illegal repression. At the beginning of 1977, Búsico was assigned to an aircraft carrier. At the end of that year he was transferred to the Secretariat of Public Information (SIP), an absurd position in relation to the profession of a sailor. At the end of 1977 he was not proposed for promotion, so he was removed from service. In the last four minutes the witness relates that he proposed a new text for teaching language in the different careers studied at the ESMA. This text was objected to and scrutinized by the Naval Intelligence Service (SIN) which called it “subversive.” Although Búsico demonstrated that it was not such, the Director of the ESMA ordered the burning of the books. Búsico expresses his feeling of complicity with the illegal repression by not reporting the events in a timely manner. In all extermination processes people play different roles: the executors, those who help, those who decide not to see, those who stand by, those who get rich, the enthusiastic volunteers and those who fight.