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Uki Goñi (born 17 October 1953) is an Argentine author. His research focuses on the role of the
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, Swiss authorities and the government of Argentina in organizing "
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"—escape routes for
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criminals and collaborators.


Personal life

Goñi was born on 17 October 1953 in Washington, D.C., and was raised in the United States, Argentina, Mexico, and Ireland. He has lived in Buenos Aires since 1975.


Investigations

Drawing on investigations in Argentine, Swiss, American, British, and Belgian government archives, as well as numerous interviews and other sources, Goñi's conclusions are detailed extensively in ''The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Perón's Argentina'' and several follow-up books. He also wrote an article for ''
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'' in which scientific testing on a skull fragment put into question the authenticity of mainstream accounts of the
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. Goñi is also well known for his reporting on the crimes of Argentina's 1976–1983 military dictatorship while he worked at the ''
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'' newspaper during those years, and as a witness in two of the trials against former officers of the dictatorship.


Repercussions

''The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Perón's Argentina'', originally published in London in 2002 and since then translated into Spanish, Italian, Slovenian, Portuguese, Polish and German, has had wide repercussions in those countries through which Nazi criminals and their collaborators passed in their escape, especially in Italy, the Netherlands, and Argentina. Following publication of the book in Italy, a group of parliamentarians in Rome demanded that Prime Minister
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open an investigation into the passage of Nazis through their country. In
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, archbishop
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distributed 50,000 copies of a "Special Edition" of "Settimanale Cattolico" ("Catholic Weekly") announcing the creation of a special commission of inquiry to investigate Goñi's revelations regarding the role of the Genoese curia in aiding the flight of Nazi war criminals through the port city. In the Netherlands,
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opened an internal investigation following the book's unearthing of documents regarding the use of the airline by Nazi officers after the war.


Other works

Goñi writes for ''
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'', and ''
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''. He has also written for various publications in Argentina. He is also the author of two previous books in Spanish, ''El infiltrado, la verdadera historia de
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'', regarding crimes committed by Argentina's
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, and ''Perón y los alemanes'', on wartime links between Berlin and Buenos Aires.


Music

Goñi is also a musician. He formed his first band, Space Age Serenity, while growing up in Dublin. In Argentina he has played and recorded with major artists such as folk musician Peteco Carabajal, the rock band Mancha de Rolando, blues guitarist Claudio Gabis, pop singer
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as well as with his own long-time band
Los Helicópteros Argentine music band formed in 1981 by Uki Goñi, Marcelo O'Reilly, Ramiro Bustos Fierro and Chapete César. Los Helicópteros recorded four LPs before their split-up in 1987, the first three on the Mercury label for PolyGram and the fourth with ...
.UkiMusic
(Uki Official YouTube Music Channel)


Books

* ''The Real Odessa'' * ''El Infiltrado. La verdadera historia de Alfredo Astiz'', Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, 1996 * ''Perón y los Alemanes'', Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, 1998


References

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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Goni, Uki 1953 births Living people Alumni of Trinity College Dublin 20th-century Argentine historians Argentine male writers People from Washington, D.C. Writers from Buenos Aires 21st-century Argentine historians