Anibal Gordon Anibal Gordon ( died 13 September 1987 ) was an Argentine suspected of being a leader of the Triple A death squad , active from 1973 - 1976 against leftist Peronistas during the period of rule by the Peróns . He served as an agent of the SIDE intelligence agency between 1968 and 1984 . His activities extended into the period of the Dirty War against the political opposition , conducted by the juntas , which ruled from 1976 to 1983 . He was also involved with the kidnappings of businessmen in the 1980s by the Puccio family gang . After his arrest in January 1984 , on charges of a 1983 kidnapping , Gordon was later charged with several political murders and kidnappings . He was convicted of three murders of political dissidents committed between 1973 - 1974 , and sentenced in 1986 to 16 years in prison . He died of lung cancer in 1987 . Background . Anibal Gordon was born in Colón to an Argentine family of Scots descent . He started getting in trouble from an early age . He developed a business of commercial displays for plastics and metals , which was used in the beginning to finance his other activities . He hired numerous young men , typically about age 19 , who became a gang . His police record noted various criminal offenses between 1951 and 1972 , including armed robbery . In 1971 he had sent his crew to Ezeiza to take weapons off a plane . They also filled several drums with naphtha , which Gordon sold undercover to other airfields . He began working as an agent of SIDE , and was with them between 1968 and 1984 . Freed from jail in 1973 , he allegedly engaged in racketeering , and kidnappings and assassinations on behalf of the government . In the 1980s , he was working with groups of the extreme right to destabilize the new democratic government of Raul Alfonsín . Gordon was arrested in the mountains of Córdoba Province in January 1984 . He was first charged with the kidnapping of activist Guillermo Patricio Kelly , which had taken place on 24 August 1983 . Other charges were later made against him . He was convicted in 1985 of executing the murders of labor leader José Rucci in 1973 , and Silvio Frondizi , a professor and brother of the President , and Rodolfo Ortega Peña in 1974 , all during the period of Triple A . In the 1980s , he also was involved with the Arquímedes Puccio family kidnapping gang , whose leading members were convicted in 1985 of four kidnappings of businessmen in the 1980s . Puccio , his son and ex - rugby player Alejandro Puccio , Gustavo Contepomi , and retired Coronel Rodolfo Victoriano Franco were among others convicted in the gang . They were sentenced to life in August 1985 . At the time of Gordon ' s death in prison in 1987 , the former intelligence agent had been charged in several kidnappings and murders . Gordon always denied being part of the Triple A . He acknowledged having worked during the Dirty War in the secret detention center of the Automotores Orletti , where interrogation under torture and executions were performed under the military dictatorship ( " El proceso " ) ( 1976 - 1983 ) . Gordon was sentenced October 1986 to sixteen years of prison . He died in jail from lung cancer , on 13 September 1987 .