Albano Eduardo Harguindeguy (Spanish: [alˈβano aɾɣindeˈɣuj]; 11 February 1927 – 29 October 2012)[2] was an Argentine Army officer who reached the rank of divisional general.

He headed the Argentine Ministry of the Interior during the military dictatorship that called itself the National Reorganization Process (Spanish: Proceso de Reorganización Nacional), which held sway in the country from 1976 to 1983.

[3] Harguindeguy was designated Chief of the Argentine Federal Police on 30 January 1975 by President María Estela Martínez de Perón[3] Less than 14 months later, he took part in overthrowing her.

[11] During Raúl Alfonsín's presidency in the 1980s, Harguindeguy was judged for Decree 2840, in which executive power was brought to bear on two businessmen named Federico and Miguel Gutheim, who had been imprisoned until April 1977, an act later considered to be kidnapping as it sought to pressure the two into having their cotton company enter into an export deal with Hong Kong.

Once the said pardons had been quashed, having been declared unconstitutional,[14] Harguindeguy was once again tried for various crimes, among which were ordering the murder of the Movement of Priests for the Third World (which had led to, among other things, Bishop Enrique Angelelli's killing), illicit assocoation, being the one directly responsible for murdering Norma González, Sixto Zalasar, Julio Solaga and Oscar de Zorzi, through twenty-five illegal deprivations of liberty, torture and illegal raids in Concordia, Gualeguaychú and Concepción del Uruguay.

[4] In 2004, Harguindeguy refused to testify before an investigating judge (juez de instrucción) about illegal detentions and murders arising from Operation Condor, and he was thus put under house arrest.