The Criminal Plan

Between April and September, the Federal Chamber heats testimony from survivors of the clandestine concentration camps and national and international leaders (such as Patricia Derian) for twelve hours a day. On December 9, Videla and Massera are sentenced to life imprisonment for treasonous homicides, illegal deprivations of liberty, torture, and robbery; former general Roberto Viola, former admiral Armando Lambruschini, and former brigadier general Ramon Agosti all receive prison sentences as well, and all those convicted are also dishonorably discharged from the armed forces.
The sentencing order describes the "criminal plan" adopted by the former military leaders which consisted in "apprehending suspects, keeping them secretly in captivity under inhuman conditions, subjecting them to torture in the aim of obtaining information so as ultimately to put them at the disposition of the courts or the National Executive Power or else to eliminate them physically." It also establishes the responsibility of those who carried out these men's orders directly and states that obedience to orders does not excuse those who carried out aberrant crimes.

Horacio Verbitsky's Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior