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letter and the number assigned as identification. The torture room was known as the "operation room". The clandestine center depended on
Guillermo Suárez Mason, commander of the First Argentine Army Corps. Also operated there officials of the Argentine Federal Police like Julio Simón (known as Turco Julián) and Juan Antonio of the Hill (known as Colors).
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On 16 August of that year, detainees from other centers near the area began to move, mainly from El Banco, other clandestine detained center. The detainees were kidnapped and transported to the center blindfolded in private vehicles or army trucks. If they came from another center, they kept the
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The detainee section consisted of four consecutive rows of eleven cells each. In the space between one row and the other, there was, from left to right, a blind corridor, one that led to the showers and another that connected with the corridor of the administrative offices and the torture room.
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