1. A.F.P. March 28 History compiled in Paris reports that the bodies of two French nuns (Alicia Doman and Renee Duguet) who were kidnapped in mid-December with eleven other human rights activists were identified among the bodies near Bahía Blanca. 2. Buenos Aires was full of certain rumours from a month ago about records of the discovery of a number of corpses brought to the beach by unusually strong winds along the Atlantic sea at points near the mouth of the Río de la Plata about 300- 350 miles north of Bahía Blanca (See Buenos Aires 1919 for control) 3. (Section in deleted) that was trying to track these rumours has confidential information that the nuns were kidnapped by Argentine security agents and at some point they were transferred to the town of Junín which is located about 150 miles west of Buenos Aires. 4. The Embassy also has confidential information obtained through a source (protected) of the Argentine government that seven bodies were discovered a few weeks ago on the Atlantic beach near Mar del Plata. According to this source, the bodies were those of the two nuns and five mothers who disappeared between 8 and 10 December 1977. Our source confirms that these individuals were abducted by members of the security forces acting under their broad mandate against terrorists and subversives. The source also stated that few individuals in the GOA were aware of this information. 5. This source has been truthfully informed in the past and we have reason to believe that it has knowledge about disappearance issues. The Embassy requests that your report be protected to avoid compromising a source that has proven useful in providing information concerning lost or missing individuals. CASTRO7