Back in January 2017, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) lifted secrecy on 11,000 documents concerning Brazil. The formerly classified documents were produced between the 1940s and the 1990s, and represented a small portion of the 13 million documents that the CIA chose to declassify at the time.
Matias Spektor, a researcher at think tank Fundação Getulio Vargas, dug up what is probably one of the most disturbing documents from the military dictatorship period. It reveals that the tortures and assassinations were not only known by the Brazilian state – they were also vouched by the Brazilian federal administration.
A formerly classified 1974 document between then-CIA director William Colby, CIA director and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger shows that the top of the federal hierarchy at the time was not only aware of the excessive violence occurring in political prisons, but they endorsed it. While you can access the full document here (with the exception of two non-declassified paragraphs), we at...
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