United Officers' Group

The Grupo de Oficiales Unidos or GOU ( Group of German officers united ) was an extreme nationalist unofficial group of colonels of the Argentine Army, among others Juan Perón was a member. She founded in 1943 for the purpose of overthrowing the oligarchic government Ramón Castillo and coined the dictatorship of the country until 1946. She presented the President Pedro Pablo Ramírez ( 1943-44 ) and Edelmiro Julián Farrell ( 1944-46 ). In foreign policy, it was close to the Axis powers.

Agreement on mutual cooperation with the SD

In May 1943, joined GOU military with the head of SD - abroad Walter Schellenberg an agreement on mutual cooperation. The agreement guaranteed the immunity of the Nazi agents from prosecution and offered them a cover identity as members of the Argentine intelligence service. They were also able to use the Argentine diplomatic bags for the transport of information between Berlin and Buenos Aires. About the Agent Hans Harnisch and Osmar Hellmuth, the GOU tried - in conversations between agents and Colonel Enrique P. González and the President Ramírez - to German weapons for a war with Brazil.