Antonio Campos Alum (16 July 1919 – 14 February 2012) was a Paraguayan politician and head of the National Directorate of Technical Affairs (Dirección Nacional de Asuntos Técnicos, DNAT), a law enforcement agency during the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner.
[2] Robert Thierry, a Pentagon official and veteran of the Korean War[3] was sent from the United States to help the Stroessner regime set up the new organization.
When selecting the employees, Lieutenant Colonel Thierry paid special attention to the lawyer Antonio Campos Alum.
Antonio Campos Alum was one of the closest collaborators of Ynsfrán, and the DNAT played an important role in the suppression of anti-government movements.
In 1966, Ynsfrán was dismissed, but this did not affect either the position of the DNAT or the status of Campos Alum - he became one of the deputies of the new head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Sabino Augusto Montanaro.
[6] In November 1977, Antonio Campos Alum personally interrogated and tortured human rights activist Martin Almada.
[7] Thousands of Paraguayans became victims of kidnappings, arrests, torture and murders committed by DNAT agents during this time, ad Antonio Campos Alum is ranked among the key figures of state terror in the Stressner era alongside Pastor Coronel.
Antonio Campos Alum, along with Alejandro Fretes Dávalos, served as the main Paraguayan operative within the Condor framework.
[11] Campos Alum also held multiple organizational meetings with anti-communist organizations from other nations in Latin America during this time.
Campos Alum headed the Comisión de Entidades Cívicas Anticomunistas (CECA) - a set of pro-Stroessner trade unions, student associations, cultural circles and Catholic organizations.
In his speech, Antonio Campos Alum called for the creation in Latin America of "an alliance of nationalist governments, before which the intrigues of Carterocommunism will become powerless".
[15] Campos Alum eventually returned to Paraguay, settling in the city of Fernando de la Mora and maintaining a low profile.