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Wave G, CTC/Barcella thread, EA cluster pages, first dispatch

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Wave G rewrites (Nautilus, UAP Task Force, Six-Day War, DARPA, Aguado,
Meridian, Deckoff) with spillover deltas; ARPA merged into DARPA; new pages
for Counter Terrorism Consultants, James B. Motley, Francis J. McNeil,
House October Surprise Task Force, Greg Kehoe, Black Diamond Capital
Management, Effective Altruism Foundation, Carla Cremer, Jacob Coxon;
first dispatch in 70 - DISPATCHES.

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summary: "FBI legal attaché in Buenos Aires who after the Letelier murder cabled Washington the first description of Operation Condor and its assassination phase, and later sold counterterrorism advice with the case's prosecutors."
location: "Buenos Aires, Argentina"
created: 2026-09-21
updated: 2026-09-21
updated: 2026-10-08
relations:
- type: member_of
with: "[[Counter Terrorism Consultants, Inc.]]"
start: 1988-08
role: "consultant"
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Robert Scherrer was the legal attaché of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] at the embassy in [[Buenos Aires]], responsible from 1972 for the southern cone of [[South America]]. The bureau "recruited him when he was eighteen, gave him a job as a filing clerk, and sent him to [[Fordham University]] to get a law degree." In the middle 1960s he served on the [[New York City|New York]] squad that watched Cuban exiles. "He had made it his business to get to know Chile's [[Manuel Contreras]]," on whom he called "on each trip to Chile."[^1]
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In 1976 Scherrer obtained the surrender of the Cuban exile fugitive [[Rolando Otero]] from [[Chile]]. "The Chilean government first denied having Otero, then offered to turn him over in a coffin." The embassy warned that Secretary of State [[Henry A. Kissinger|Henry Kissinger]] would cancel his visit of that June. At their first meeting after the Letelier murder, in late November 1976, Contreras offered him "confidential information" that [[Ronni Moffitt]] had been Letelier's lover and that her husband was the likeliest suspect. With [[Carter Cornick]] he questioned [[Michael Townley]] on April 17, 1978.[^1]
He retired as chief of the bureau's records. In 1988 he joined the prosecutors of the case, [[Eugene Propper]] and [[E. Lawrence Barcella]], and Cornick in [[Counter Terrorism Consultants, Inc.]][^3]
He retired as chief of the bureau's records. In August 1988 [[United Press International]] reported that Scherrer was joining [[Counter Terrorism Consultants, Inc.]] as an active consultant, alongside Cornick (president), [[Eugene Propper]] (a full partner without title) and [[E. Lawrence Barcella, Jr.|E. Lawrence Barcella]], who was to be called on for legal consultation on extradition. The article describes Scherrer, as the bureau's representative in Argentina, as having come up with the key piece of evidence linking the Chilean secret police to the murder of Orlando Letelier.[^3]
In September 1989 [[Mary McGrory]] reported that Cornick proposed to [[Saul Landau]] of the [[Institute for Policy Studies]] that Scherrer receive an award from the institute. The column described Scherrer, the former legal attaché in Buenos Aires, as retired from the bureau in 1988, with multiple sclerosis and in a wheelchair.[^4]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Dinges, John, and Saul Landau. *Assassination on Embassy Row*. McGraw-Hill, 1980, pp. 130, 237-239, 263-266, 276-277.
[^2]: Dinges, John. *The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents*. New Press, 2004, pp. 90-94, 121-122; Branch, Taylor, and Eugene M. Propper. *Labyrinth*. Viking, 1982, p. 124.
[^3]: "A group of top former FBI agents and federal prosecutors," United Press International, August 2, 1988.
[^3]: "A group of top former FBI agents and federal prosecutors," United Press International, August 2, 1988, https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/08/02/A-group-of-top-former-FBI-agents-and-federal/9684730900658/.
[^4]: Mary McGrory, column on the Institute for Policy Studies and Robert Scherrer, The York Dispatch (York, Pennsylvania), September 25, 1989, p. 8, https://www.newspapers.com/image/613938311/.