Argentine Recants Admission of Killings
From Times Wire Reports
An Argentine former naval officer who once said he had thrown dissidents to their deaths from airplanes during his nation’s “dirty war” on dissidents recanted at his trial on charges of genocide, torture and terrorism.
Adolfo Scilingo, 58, said in 1997 that he had thrown 30 drugged, naked dissidents from planes into the Atlantic. He recanted after being sent to jail.
In a Spanish courtroom, he again denied taking part in such flights and said he had taken most of the information from press publications.
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