The conflict will have to be resolved by the Minister of Defense, General Presti, who, as a man of the uniform, will have to order a dispute where camouflage is in excess and intentions are clear at first sight. Because in Argentine military intelligence, information is power… but the chair is even more so. Those were the golden years, in which the career of his son, Wenceslao, also flourished, today an advisor to a combative Kirchnerist senator in the Intelligence Committee. By Dario RosattiOn the always lively board of Argentine military intelligence, where the chairs move faster than the daily reports, a new scandal has erupted. Administrative magic. But Rear Admiral Barbich is not sailing alone. It was activated when the Government decided to eliminate the National Directorate of Strategic Military Intelligence (DNIEM), a structure that for years was coveted not so much for its mission… but for its cash box. Very fraternal, very naval, very much “gentlemen of the sea.” Carrasco, Gonzalez Day and the succession of Petri in Defense: the curious support of a Kirchnerist for a Macrist. The so-called “game of the chair” by joint intelligence did not start yesterday. Today, the desire became a reality, albeit through somewhat tortuous paths. The disappearance of DNIEM was the work of the Secretary of Intelligence, Cristian Auguadra, a public accountant, entrepreneur and architect of reforms as profound as curious within the national intelligence system. Returning to the SIN (naval intelligence) is not an option: its methods, let's say… oblique, do not harvest too many sympathies. Gonzalez Day also brings a respectable political curriculum: he comes from the Kirchnerist nursery and was a protégé of the former “Lord 5” Sergio Rossi, former Minister of Defense and former Chief of Cabinet. Something old and accepted by regulation and custom, uncomfortable and annoying when it hinders ambitions and who holds the post today is Colonel Bayma Andre. Vice Admiral Dalle Nogare, seduced by the siren songs and perhaps by his naval heart, listened attentively to the day's proposals. And it is known that in certain offices, a license is equivalent to leaving the door ajar. The one who saw the opportunity was Rear Admiral Pablo Javier Barbich, current Director of Intelligence of the Navy, who this very morning was “operating” — in the broadest and most creative sense of the term — the Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Vice Admiral Marcelo Alejandro Dalle Nogare. The prize in dispute: the Directorate of Intelligence of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces (DGI-EMCO). Today, the chair is formally occupied by Colonel Eduardo Carlos Bayma André, but his administrative tranquility was altered by a minor detail: he is on leave. Everything stays in the family. Karina Milei's anger with the head of the Navy, the senator who created the $LIBRA Commission, La Boya and Boyita. Thus, while Colonel Bayma André enjoys his regulatory rest, his naval comrades are advancing on the chair of the EMCO's intelligence with an argument as simple as it is tricky: the rear admiral has a higher rank than the colonel. By being “on assignment” from naval intelligence to a structure that no longer exists, the man urgently needs a new port to continue operating. Beside him rows his faithful squire, Rear Admiral (R) Luis “La Boya” Gonzalez Day, one of the collateral victims of the dissolution of DNIEM. Already in the times of General Bari Sosa at the head of the EMCO, the fight to absorb the DNIEM was open and without shame. Among these reforms, the DNIEM simply ceased to exist. But the final decision will not be his. What the conspirators forget — or prefer to forget — is a minor but detail valid in the Armed Forces: the concept of superiority by position.
