Acosta, Jorge Eduardo. (Navy Captain)
Alias "El Tigre" (the tiger). Chief of the Intelligence Task Force Navy unit GT-332 based at the ESMA (Navy Mechanics School) on Avenida Libertador in Buenos Aires. Responsible, with his colleagues (Rear-Admiral Rubén Jacinto Chamorro, Captain Francis Whamond, Luit. Enrique Yon, Luit. García Velazco, Luit. Antonio Pernias, Luit. Juan Carlos Rolón, Luit. Roberto González, and others) for about 5000 kidnap and murder cases, many of them thrown out alive into the Atlantic ocean from Navy planes.
As the boss of Alfredo Astiz, Acosta is also responsible for giving the orders to kill the Swedish teenage girl Dagmar Hagelin, the French nuns of the Church of Santa Cruz, Leonie Duquet and Alice Domon, and the founder of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo human rights group, Azucena Villaflor de Vicenti.
Acosta was clearly a psychopath. One minute he could be kissing a wanted prisoner through the man's hood, overjoyed at seeing him on the torture table of the ESMA, the next minute twisting the dial on the electric shock machine higher and higher, his face contorted with concentration. [Children of Cain, p. 93] Acosta's credibility evaporated as he began his testimony before a civilian court in December 1986; "I have no knowledge that there were prisoners in the Mechanics School", he said. In another time he added: "There were no detentions as such. It was like someone goes to a police commission and they're asked, 'Is this what you did?' If he said he did nothing ... he could leave."
As of March 1996, Acosta works for the federal government at the ministry of the interior in Buenos Aires, in which archives, incidentally, all the testimonies given before the CONADEP are kept out of the reach of the general public.
In October 2011, Acosta was sentenced to life in prison by an Argentine court
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