The bookstore of relaunch tomorrow the book “1964, seen and commented by the White House”, by reporter Marcos Sá Corrêa. It is based on the documents and texts of its reports, published in 1977 by Jornal do Brasil, in three successive editions. Sá Corrêa was 30 years old when he boarded blind, with three tracks:
(1) In 1967, an American former shipwire had counted on an interview that, in March 1964, the ship where he served received orders to move towards Brazil; (2) An Officer of the Brazilian Navy Reserve who had lived in the United States had seen an American military telegram dated April 1964, listing, among the recipients, the commander of a “cinstrike”, and had commented: “This refers to a military task force.” (3) The third track realized that in the document archive of former President Lyndon Johnson in Austin, Texas, papers had appeared for the Brazilian crisis of March/April 1964.
Sá Corrêa spent a week in Austin, xerocating hundreds of telegrams and diplomatic or military reports. Those were bicuro times, and Army Minister Silvio Frota was in a collision course with President Ernesto Geisel. Speaking little of his findings, he released a word: “A -vião holder.”
He had hit the “”. On March 31, 1964, she sent to Brazil a naval force with six Freemakers, led by the forrestal aircraft carrier. Four oil tankers were also diverted. The journalist again copied the hundreds of documents and left the collection in. It was foreseen against an inspection in customs.
When the reporter arrived in Rio de Janeiro with the boxes of the paperwork, General Silvio Frota had been fired. Days later, Brazil was surprised by the revelations. Since then, the American documentation about 1964 has brought some news, none of the size of Operation Brother Sam, with its aircraft carrier. The ship where the sailor of the 1967 interview was and the forrestal tarthered on April 3. João Goulart was on his way to Uruguay and the US government had recognized the new order.
Marcos Sá Corrêa’s book is on sale at Senate Bookstore and, as usual, its electronic version is available for free.
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