810.20 Defense/5–2440: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Argentina (Armour)
80. From the Under Secretary. Your 157, May 24, 9 p.m. If you have not yet had a reply from the Minister for Foreign Affairs please call on him immediately. You may say that the replies which have been received from the other principal republics in South America are favorable, and that it would seem clear that if action is to be effective and is to be developed in its initial stages in the secrecy required, it must be undertaken without delay.
[Page 24]With this in mind schedules have been prepared for the various officers to proceed immediately to the different capitals concerned.
For your confidential information, which you may communicate to Doctor Cantilo as soon as you have received a favorable reply, Captain W. O. Spears, United States Navy, has been designated to undertake the conversations with the Argentine authorities and if the response is favorable will arrive in Buenos Aires on Pan American plane June 7. He will travel on special passport and carry credentials as a diplomatic courier. [Welles.]