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==== Seaborne attacks ==== Montoneros were inspired by the Italian and British wartime commando raids on warships, and on 1 November 1974, Montoneros successfully blew up General Commissioner Alberto Villar, the chief of the Argentine federal police in his yacht. His wife was also killed on the spot.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8mFdMbhkiWEC&q=yacht+montoneros&pg=PA62 |title=Lloyd's MIU Handbook of Maritime Security, Julio Espin-Digon, Rupert Herbert-Burns, Sam Bateman & Peter Lehr, p. 63, CRC Press, 2008 |access-date=12 November 2011|isbn=9781420054811 |last1=Herbert-Burns |first1=Rupert |last2=Bateman |first2=Sam |last3=Lehr |first3=Peter |date=24 September 2008 |publisher=CRC Press }}</ref> On 22 August 1975,<ref name=saga/> their frogmen planted a mine on the river's bed below the hull of a navy [[destroyer]], the [[ARA Santísima Trinidad (1974)|ARA ''Santísima Trinidad'']], as she remained docked at Rio Santiago before her commissioning. The explosion caused considerable damage to the ship's computer and electronic equipment. On 14 December 1975, using the same techniques, Montoneros frogmen placed explosives on the yacht ''Itati'' in an attempt to kill the Commander-in-Chief of the Argentine navy, Admiral Emilio Massera.<ref>Soldiers of Perón: Argentina's Montoneros, Richard Gillespie, Page 197, Clarendon Press, 1982.</ref> While Massera was not injured, the yacht was badly damaged by the explosives.<ref name=saga>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TSYc5r0HfBwC&q=itati+montoneros&pg=PA134 |title=From Vietnam to El Salvador: The Saga of the FMLN Sappers and other Guerrilla Special Forces in Latin America, David E. Spencer, p. 134, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996 |date=30 October 1996 |access-date=12 November 2011|isbn=9780275955144 |last1=Spencer |first1=David E. |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }}</ref>
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