For those who haven’t seen it, the National Security Archive has its latest release of formerly classified documents, with the focus this time on Henry Kissinger’s support for the Argentine junta’s crackdown against dissenters in 1976.

Discussing the dictatorship’s massive human rights abuses with a representative of the Argentine government, Kissinger advised, “If you can finish before Congress gets back, the better.” As a historian of Congress, it’s always interesting to see confirmation of the intangible ways in which Congress affected US foreign policy.