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‘On the Decision to Introduce Martial Law in Poland in 1981’ Two Historians Report to the Commission on Constitutional Oversight of the SEJM of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Paczkowski and Andrzej Werblan 22. [...] The Soviet Non-Invasion of Poland in 1980-81 and the End of the Cold War Vojtech Mastny 24. [...] Part of the mystery probed in this paper regards Frondizi's concern--and charge, which he communicated directly to Kennedy-- that US embassy officials in Buenos Aires--agents of the Pentagon, the CIA, and even the ambassador himself--were plotting, perhaps in defiance of JFK's own wishes, with hardline Argentine military conspirators to pressure and even overthrow him. [...] [had been] responsible for the ["good offices"] idea in the hope of putting pressure on the Americans for more aid while at the same time pleasing left wingers."35 Near the end of March, Rubottom wrote a fairly candid letter on his handling of the "good offices" business, not to McGeorge Bundy but to Assistant Secretary Mann. [...] Kennedy, Arturo Frondizi, and a "Hopping Mad" US Ambassador CWIHP Working Paper #97 the specter once again of military pressure on the President [Frondizi] because of the Frigerio influence."37 This April 6 Rubottom-Frondizi conversation was almost certainly the one nominally referred to in the May 2 Rubottom-Bundy purported letter, since the only other April 1961 talk between the US ambassador an.