Alfredo Astiz

Argentine intelligence officer, convicted murderer and spy for Argentina's last dictatorship

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Alfredo Ignacio Astiz is an Argentine former military commander, intelligence officer, and naval commando who served in the Argentine Navy during the military dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla during the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional (1976–1983). A convicted war criminal, he was known as El Ángel Rubio de la Muerte, and had a reputation as a torturer. He was discharged from the military in 1998 after defending his actions in a press interview.