Escribir la mirada. Inteligencia de la DIPBA y la DGI sobre estudiantes universitarios

Abstract

The article explores the organization, control and espionage activities of the intelligence archives in Argentina, and their communication protocols. The aim is to present preliminary results of a comparative study of intelligence reports about students made by informants from the DIPBA (1959-1974) and the DGI (1967-1975). It investigates the spies’ writing style and the ways students under constant surveillance are described. The article is organized into three sections: the first outlines the predominant discursive genres in the corpus, taking into account the communication routines of the communities studied; the second includes a description of the textual sequences that organize the transcription of the gaze; the third analyzes the description of the students and professors under surveillance and the construction of an anti-ethical world. The article concludes that a “hidden” service paradoxically found it difficult to control the public dissemination of its adversaries' worldview.