La Nacion ,Buenos Aires ,October 31 1998

It alerts by a fantasmal solitary navigator " If it is necessary, sink him, but stop him now!"  The high official of the Naval Prefecture hung the telephone, the knot of the tie became loose and felt perhaps that the long awaited promotion  would never arrive .

 The information, spread in reserve by naval intelligence, assured that from Puerto Deseado (Patagonian coast)  it had weighed anchor  a sailboat . On board a solitary navigator had  put prow to the Falklands islands. 

The men of the Naval Intelligence Service risked that he would be Osvaldo Destéfanis. In April of 1983, on board of the transport Lago Lácar, Destéfanis  headed the   trip to the Falklands of a group of relatives of the fallen soldiers  in the war. 

The version came to rout one of the greater and secret safeties of the last times. One was to avoid, to any cost, a possible incident that could obstruct the presidential visit to Great Britain. 

The president Carlos Menem asked the heads of the organisms of intelligence and security that will avoid any attempt to arrive at the Falklands islands to endanger  the results of their trip. The answer to the orders arrivals from London was sudden. In a matter of hours, hundred of deep-sea fishing boats and freighters located in the Argentine Sea below parallel 40 were intercepted, boarded and identified. 

There was no peace, between last Tuesday and Wednesdays, for the commanders of local intelligence and the forces of security. The secretary of Security, Miguel Angel Toma, followed the operations personally,  said to the La Nacion  journalists.

 The red alert only dissipated when they noticed that the solitary navigator never existed. It was a false alarm.