One of the secret documents released by the United States government reveals that then -President John F. Kennedy counselors found a military coup in Brazil “preferable” to let the opposition seize power.
The files were released after Donald Trump’s order signed shortly after he assumed the presidency in January. The documents related to Brazil, released on Tuesday (18), are part of a lead to investigations of Kennedy’s murder.
Many of the thousands of disclosed documents address CIA activities, the US Intelligence Agency, during the Cold War period, citing, for example, Brazil and the concerns of the influence of communists in Latin America.
One of the archives, dated April 17, 1963, reports a panel meeting of the president’s foreign intelligence advisory board. He had initially released on November 20, 2017, but with censorship – including quotes to Brazil.
The meeting took place on the 15th of that same month and gathered J. Patrick Coyne, panel executive secretary, Robert Murphy and Gordon Gray, counselors about international US government affairs. Who writes about this is Cord Meyer Jr., head of secret action team.
At the beginning of the meeting, Meyer described the “electoral operations” of the United States in Chile, Dominican Republic, Brazil and Guatemala.
“Mr. Murphy was particularly concerned about the situation in Brazil, and both he and Mr. Gray found it difficult to understand why the State Department [dos EUA] continued to provide large -scale economic assistance when [João] Goulart until then refused to clean the house (sic) Communists and companions of travel, both within the government and the labor movement, ”says the document.
According to Meyer, the counselors were interested in knowing that the agents were in contact with military leaders who put themselves to Goulart.
Then the document points out that these American authorities “seemed to feel that a military coup at some point could be preferable to allow such a large and powerful country to fall into the hands of the opposition.”
So the counselors questioned how much he was invested in these “electoral operations” and what were the outcome prospects.
Also during the meeting, situations were discussed from various other countries and regions, from Chile, Argentina and Haiti to India, China and Angola.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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