Overview
- Ruth Morton says she monitored the ARA Santa Fe, ARA San Luis and ARA Santiago del Estero from a cramped hide beneath a damaged beachfront building in Mar del Plata.
- She describes reporting movements by riding buses to distant payphones to call an Anglo-Argentine intermediary who supplied rotating numbers to a British-accented handler, with oversight from Montevideo by a controller codenamed Claire.
- Her account includes a nighttime shot from the sea that killed a capybara beside her post, which she says led to an order to withdraw.
- Morton says she was recruited by her sister, who worked at the British embassy in Montevideo, tying the mission to a family intelligence tradition dating back to World War II.
- She reports receiving a signed commendation and a silver bowl from British forces after the war, while current coverage notes there is no independent verification or official comment.