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Argentine Navy Commodore in Awkward Situation at Ceremony

During the Naval Intelligence Day ceremony, Commodore Pablo Falzone was at the center of a scandal involving alleged harassment of a subordinate naval agent. His presence triggered an alert and police intervention.


Argentine Navy Commodore in Awkward Situation at Ceremony

The incident occurred at noon on this Thursday. Commodore Pablo Gabriel Falzone, director of the Armed Forces Intelligence Institute, had a bitter moment during the commemoration of Naval Intelligence Day, which marks the creation of the Directorate General of Naval Intelligence on November 13, 1901. The uncomfortable situation in front of all the personnel of the directorate, gathered on the third floor of the Libertad building, was caused by an alert due to a protective measure that the commodore Falzone had as a result of a dispute with naval intelligence agent María José F.O. Investigators asked Falzone to show the invitation sent by Barbich and proceeded to photocopy it as evidence. The unanswered question is how the head of naval intelligence could be unaware of a controversy over alleged harassment involving an agent under his command and an Air Force chief officer. The tension subsided when Falzone was escorted to offices distant from the environment where the official ceremony was taking place. Personnel from the Navy's Gender Office also attended, providing support to F.O. Initial investigations sought to clarify why Falzone was present at the ceremony. The complaint file is being processed in the court of Daniel Rafecas. The event, convened by the head of the Navy's intelligence agency, Rear Admiral Pablo Barbich, was overshadowed by the panic button alert activated by naval agent F.O., who had to be treated by the Navy command's medical service after fainting. Commodore Falzone serves as head of the institute located on Cabildo Avenue, which develops and supervises teaching in the field of military intelligence at university and non-university levels, under the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces. In addition to Falzone, the national director of Strategic Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense, Marco Constenla, attended, and as special guests, the Deputy Chief of the Navy, Vice Admiral Marcelo Flamini, the former head of intelligence and current Director General of the Navy General Staff, Vice Admiral Juan Coré, and the former prosecutor Juan José Ghirimoldi. upon seeing that Falzone was among the attendees. A few minutes later, a patrol of the metropolitan police arrived at the headquarters of the Navy General Staff, in charge of verifying and ensuring compliance with the protective and perimeter measures dictated by justice. It was explained that by protocol, it corresponds to the head of the directorate, Rear Admiral Barbich, to send invitations to the authorities of the intelligence area of the other forces. The Buenos Aires City Police "detained" a high-ranking officer of the Argentine Air Force who was participating in an institutional act at the Libertad building. Meanwhile, intelligence agent F.O.