~6,000 pages of reports from the US embassy in Buenos Aires, c. 1960–1972

I have made available documents that I copied in the US National Archives over a decade ago

Back in 2010, I spent a couple of weeks in Maryland, at the National Archives and Records Administration, copying documents from the US Embassy in Buenos Aires, from roughly 1960 to 1972. I had been intending to write my PhD dissertation on this period but then got sidetracked by the nineteenth century. For this reason, I never used the documents in my research and they languished on an external hard drive. With some effort, I have now retrieved them and made them available online here from my Google Drive:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12i1E5bkccCqGngGH5sWGr8kFwA_GrUVo?usp=sharing

Anyone can download them and use them freely.

My revision of the NARA records wasn’t systematic. I mainly looked at the folders relating to economic affairs and photographed anything that seemed mildly interesting. There is no index to the archives and I suspect they are not in any discernible order. Nonetheless, they are OCRed and searchable.

In the past, I have found the US Embassy records extremely useful. They often give a behind-the-scenes view of what was going on. Moreover, US Embassy staff were often highly intelligent with good analytical skills, especially in the decade immediately after the Second World War, when there was a strong public-service ethos.

I stopped photographing the files in 1973 because that is when the US Embassy records become available online: https://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-list.jsp?cat=WR43. However, I suspect that even those more recent years are unterutilised in research on Argentina.

If you find anything useful in the documents, please do let me know!

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