Barry Melbourne Hussey

Vice Admiral Barry Melbourne Hussey was an Argentine naval officer. With English and Irish ancestry and a good mastery of the English language Hussey became known to his comrades as El Ingles ("the Englishman"). After serving as a naval pilot he was appointed to the Argentine civil administration after their 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands, with responsibility for education, public health and social services. Hussey remained in Port Stanley during the resulting Falklands War and played a key role in connecting British officers with Argentine commander Mario Benjamín Menéndez to discuss the surrender of Argentine troops on the islands. After the war he served as a naval attaché in the US and as Deputy Joint Chief of Staff. By 1989 Hussey had been called out of retirement to head the National Security Council (COSENA) established by Argentine president Raúl Alfonsín.