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Adolfo Scilingo
Adolfo Scilingo (b. 1947) is a former Argentine naval officer who is currently serving 30 years in a Spanish prison after being convicted on April 19, 2005 for crimes against humanity. The court found that he was on board military planes which jettisoned 30 naked, drugged political dissidents into the Atlantic Ocean during the rule of the military junta between 1976 and 1983. Scilingo had earlier attracted great notoriety for publicly confessing to journalist Horacio Verbitsky, to participating in the so-called death flights, the first of a series of public confessions collectively called in Argentina the 'Scilingo effect' (Feitlowitz 1999). ...
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