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Claims (17)
Lincoln Gordon appointed
Brazil documented
“And I'll have the coffee maker. All right. So now that the chit chat's out of the way, we're going to start back where we left off on chapter three. And this is where it gets good, guys, in a really evil, bad kind of way. So we've got all t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 4 @ 3:21
Lincoln Gordon appointed
Milton Campos host_asserted
“And that frustrated Carlos Lacerda, who was hoping to become president of Brazil. The bitterness and disappointment led to many more joining the resistance. Gordon sought out a friend in the new government, Milton Campos, to protest the mil…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 9:08
John Tuthill succeeded
Lincoln Gordon host_asserted
“Institutional Act had been enacted, which included the shutting down of Congress, suspended habeas corpus for political crimes, and gave full power to the president. Gordon was no longer the ambassador to Brazil. Gordon's successor, John Tu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 12:18
Lincoln Gordon appointed
Brazil documented
“conduct business off duty. So during Lyndon Johnson's administration, Lincoln Gordon's service in Brazil had been rewarded with the job of Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America Affairs. So he got promoted. Lincoln Gordon was the am…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 8 @ 7:08
Lincoln Gordon spied_on
João Goulart documented
“in Brazil. So by mid-1961, Lincoln Gordon, his wife and their youngest daughter, moved to Brazil. And Goulart has taken office. He starts making his cabinet appointments. And Gordon is watching as these different people get appointed to off…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 4 @ 3:52
Ford Foundation funded
Lincoln Gordon documented
“They had renewed that acquaintance later when Gordon had toured Brazil. Guess who paid for his trip to Brazil? None other than the Ford Foundation. Now she called and made an appointment with the ambassador and told him that she was hosting…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 4 @ 7:56
Lincoln Gordon succeeded
John Tuthill documented
“John Tuthill, his successor in Brazil, was not as well thought of in the State Department. And his confrontation of some of the military generals that had supported the coup didn't go over real well. Now, Elbrick.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 8 @ 7:38
Lincoln Gordon targeted_for_regime_change
João Goulart book_quoted
“and his friends had underestimated him. Now he was at the center of a plot to overthrow the government of the fifth largest nation in the world. The opposition papers attacked the coming rally as perilous to public order. Gee, that sounds f…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 15:56
Lincoln Gordon recruited
Juscelino Kubitschek documented
“Brazil at the time had their own intelligence and would know about all of these things happening. That night, March 31st, Gordon called on Kubitschek for all of the accusations of corruption and the indisputable inflation during his regime.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 38:29
Lincoln Gordon headed
Group G host_asserted
“The other guy was actually a Caltexico employee in Saigon, which is South Vietnam, and his name was Harry Bernard. This organization, by the end of 1943, became invaluable for Chinese Genalt's 14th Air Force in Kunming. And so this was thei…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 36:40
Lincoln Gordon trained
Charles Burke Elbrick documented
“was taken under Gordon's wing, and prior to his departure, he was given a cram course by none other than Lincoln Gordon in Brazil's quote-unquote history. July 1969, Elbrick arrives in Brazil. At the embassy, Elbrick's reputation had preced…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 8 @ 8:05
Lincoln Gordon defended
Brazil documented
“He would talk to the students about his role in Brazil. Gordon countered criticism of his role there by pointing to the economic boom that occurred in Brazil afterwards. The students rebutted this argument with statistics proving that the p…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 52:43
Lincoln Gordon member_of
NATO documented
“He assisted Paul Hoffman in the agency that administered the Marshall Plan. And we know the Marshall Plan was used to fund Operation Gladio. He was a part of a delegation to the UN Atomic Energy Commission. And during the Eisenhower adminis…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 59:20
Lincoln Gordon appointed
Brazil host_asserted
“get information based on allegations, then you're not cut out to be their type of police and you're not cut out for training at the Office of Public Safety. Lincoln Gordon, who we know as the ambassador, the coup had first seemed to fulfill…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 6:28
Lincoln Gordon member_of
Alliance for Progress documented
“Before his inauguration, Kennedy had set up a Latin American task force to establish broad lines of policy, and he named Burrell as his chief. When Burrell called, he basically offered him a job. Burrell invited Gordon to join his committee…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 1:01:16
Lincoln Gordon member_of
Marshall Plan documented
“He assisted Paul Hoffman in the agency that administered the Marshall Plan. And we know the Marshall Plan was used to fund Operation Gladio. He was a part of a delegation to the UN Atomic Energy Commission. And during the Eisenhower adminis…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 59:20
McGeorge Bundy succeeded
Lincoln Gordon host_asserted
“He also wanted the job of Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, which George Ball got. And the only one left that he wanted was the National Security Advisor, which McGeorge Bundy got. Bundy was not only six years younger than Gordon, he…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 1:00:14
Mentions (83)
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I'm holding back some of my fire for a future debate with a friend of ours who's pro-Lincoln, Matthew Errett. How you doing, Matt? Matt's a great guy. We disagree on Lincoln and Hamilton. Hopefully we're going to have that discussion. Becau…
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number one, Harry Bernard, number two, and lastly, Frank Tan, T-A-N. Gordon was a British-born Canadian with a home in California. After selling his coffee plantation in Kenya, you know, because that's like everybody, you know, no big deal.…
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It is an amazingly beautiful area. But guess what he was doing there in 1938? He was directing the oil operations of Cal Texaco Corporation. Now tell me this guy wasn't a spy even back then, because I'm not going to believe you if you do. A…
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However, in 1941, he was encouraged by the quote-unquote company, meaning the Caltexico Corporation, to basically get together a group and create a spy organization and go back over there. You know, like that's perfectly normal. He initiall…
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What at first may have been a casual arrangement soon converted to an intelligence organization in a short time, utilizing British funds, radios, equipment, and Chinese personnel. Gordon was joined by two American associates, one by the nam…
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And if they have all the information and you don't because they tell you not to talk to these people because of a label, you become less effective in wartime. So you can never pay attention to bullshit like that. One of the tasks of GBT was…
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Watching Noel's coffin being carried out of Washington National Presbyterian Church, Elbrick thought, there but the grace of God go I. Upon the election of Richard Nixon as president, Lincoln Gordon left his post at the State Department and…
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He would talk to the students about his role in Brazil. Gordon countered criticism of his role there by pointing to the economic boom that occurred in Brazil afterwards. The students rebutted this argument with statistics proving that the p…
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declined by 55%. Gordon would then argue that since the military held power, it was too early to assess its rule. The wealth went to American oligarchs, not to Brazilians. And his only last argument with any of them, well, it's at least not…
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Throughout the 70s, tales of torture coming out of Brazil's prison had not changed greatly, and the relevance of Lee King Gordon's last offense was considered diminished during the first two months of President Jimmy Carter's administration…
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And now we're on his assignment to Brazil after he's resigned. And we have SR, can you mute your mic? Oh, I am sorry, Colonel. That's okay. And we left off with Lincoln Gordon, who was kind of the odd man out.…
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The army was credited with showing restraint and devotion for democratic principles when all the episode proved was that the plotters against Goulard was as strong enough, wasn't strong yet enough to resist him. Goulard accepted the comprom…
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so that there would be no trouble. During the time that Dan Mederone was making a mild political gesture at permitting Hank to participate in the JFK Richmond dinner, he thought that that was going to help him long term. Since 1955, Lincoln…
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had been serving as a professor of international economics at Harvard's Graduate School for Business Administration. He particularly prided himself on remaining untainted by the goings-on within Harvard. The most significant fact in Gordon'…
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and went off to be none other than a Rhodes Scholar. So we know where his loyalties lie. After Oxford, he taught at Harvard and served in the government. He was always on important missions, but seldomly the top man. He kind of was one of t…
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He assisted Paul Hoffman in the agency that administered the Marshall Plan. And we know the Marshall Plan was used to fund Operation Gladio. He was a part of a delegation to the UN Atomic Energy Commission. And during the Eisenhower adminis…
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He also wanted the job of Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, which George Ball got. And the only one left that he wanted was the National Security Advisor, which McGeorge Bundy got. Bundy was not only six years younger than Gordon, he…
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So they were both connected to the funding of Operation Gladio. For a while, it looked like Gordon was just going to be left at Cambridge. He was in the middle of writing a two-volume study on the Brazilian investment for American oligarchs…
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Before his inauguration, Kennedy had set up a Latin American task force to establish broad lines of policy, and he named Burrell as his chief. When Burrell called, he basically offered him a job. Burrell invited Gordon to join his committee…
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Burrell convinced him that the committee would not take too much time, and Lincoln Gordon, at last, was abroad on other business. During the campaign, John F. Kennedy aides had suggested that he take an initiative in Latin America that was …
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Progress Alliance Para El Progreso was the name that they settled on. Gordon was asked to look over the speech that Kennedy was going to give announcing this big program and the money and basically said one of the former people that had pre…
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had said their goal was to, within 10 years, close the economic gap between the U.S. and the Latin American nations. Well, Gordon, having looked at Brazil's economy, said there's no way you can do that. And to say that is disingenuous. The …
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Gordon was able to raise his objections to even saying it because while the Kennedy administration may not be there in 10 years, the people on the ground would be there in 10 years. And JFK elected to leave that out of the speech that he ga…
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And I'll have the coffee maker. All right. So now that the chit chat's out of the way, we're going to start back where we left off on chapter three. And this is where it gets good, guys, in a really evil, bad kind of way. So we've got all t…
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in Brazil. So by mid-1961, Lincoln Gordon, his wife and their youngest daughter, moved to Brazil. And Goulart has taken office. He starts making his cabinet appointments. And Gordon is watching as these different people get appointed to off…
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He said, had the professor been grading Goulart's appointments publicly, Brazil might have noticed that the ones that he deemed too liberal would have gotten a failing grade. Because remember, that's where this guy's background is, Lincoln …
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And Gulliard is not known to have ever published anything in writing about what he thought of the ambassador. But the ambassador printed what he thought of Gulliard. And basically, he said that he was an extrovert and very crude. He had a r…
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You know, that's kind of the briefings that he got at the State Department before he came as well. So he was predisposed to not like him. But they met. He was given his credentials to be the ambassador. And the president said that I'm going…
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that he invited the ambassador to come see him. So probably the most important thing that happened in Gordon's attitude was the fact that Gouillard was not to be trusted, which is kind of what he was told by the State Department when he got…
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the opposition to Goliad inside of Brazil. The first guy that makes this known was a admiral named Silvio Heck, H-E-C-K. He had actually had a social connection to Gordon because in 1946, Heck's niece had met Gordon at a UN meeting on atomi…
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Much of the Air Force and 80 percent of the Navy feel the same way about him. And we are organizing a resistance. We do not need your help. But when the day comes, we hope the U.S. takes an understanding view. All the U.S. ambassador respon…
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The next day, Gordon called in his deputy and the CIA station chief and asked him to check the veracity of what Heck had said. They reported back and said Heck basically is full of crap. There is only a handful of officers that feel that wa…
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Brazilians Gordon had met over the years would oppose a government that he was now accredited to be assigned to. His acquaintance with a man by the name of Paulo Ayres, A-Y-R-E-S Jr., dated back to 1959 when Ayres was the head of a Brazilia…
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When Gordon was asked to suggest a Brazilian delegate to a multinational business conference, he remembered him and he and Ayers had the pleasure of a reunion in Washington. Now that Gordon was in Brazil as the ambassador, he looked Ayers u…
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In good time, Ayers described to Gordon a political organization that he was creating with the cumbersome but innocent name of the Institute for Social Research Study. In Portuguese, its initials was IPES, IPES. Had Gordon been able to reco…
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were hired by U.S. businesses that had been coming in to exploit the market down there. Nor did de Peva meet resistance from the most significant embassy in Brazil, i.e. the U.S. embassy. Through Paulo Ayers and General Goldberry, de Peva w…
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who was managing IPEZ with great skill, whereas DePava had decided that Gordon was a very simple man. And when he was pressed too much at cocktail parties, he basically just said, I'm the ambassador here. Put yourself in my place, meaning t…
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Ambassador Gordon knew of all of the various CIA activities. The agency's rule was that you provide the ambassador as much information as he wants to hear. So it's either he knows or he doesn't know on purpose. Certainly, Gordon knew all ab…
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that the Northeast was so destitute that any money spent there would be wasted. To Lincoln Gordon, the best solution was a massive resettlement that would lure farmers hundreds of miles south and west to better land. You know, kind of like …
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More propaganda. The farmers would come out in droves to see their champion, but he would not appear because it was a lie. And somehow a fight would break out. Rumors were also circulated, also circulated, painting both Julio and Goliath as…
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Nonetheless, Lincoln Gordon had to go on meeting with him because it was his job. And he found that the Brazilian president was full of surprises. At the time, the missile crisis in October 1962, Gordon went to brief Goldiart on the presenc…
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had slowed down his promotion and other assignments. Goliard listened to the ambassador's report, interrupting only to say, I thought Rusk said lately that those arms were purely defensive. Gordon thought, so he's aware of what's going on? …
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It's not just a threat to you. It's a threat to all of us. Be assured of our solidarity on the matter. Because, of course, Goliath knew that the U.S. had already placed missiles in Turkey. He knew exactly what was going on. This momentary r…
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might not be a communist, but he would try to emulate Vargas and stage a coup within his own government to obtain even greater powers, so thought Gordon. Since he was so erratic, according to Gordon, and inept, that move would only open the…
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who already hold their country's highest office, rarely overthrow their own government. There was no word Gordon and his advisors could find to describe what they accused Gouillard of plotting. It fell to the ambassador to invent something.…
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Gouliard was going to create subversion. You can't make this shit up. By getting his presidential powers back, this should never have been taken away from him. JFK chose not to repay Gouliard's visit. Instead, he sent his brother Robert to …
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And he saw that Bobby Kennedy had neither the time nor the talent for Latin America. It's been a turbulent period, Kennedy told Gouliard. But now that you're back to a fresh start, a real opportunity for moving ahead. A few weeks later, by …
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However, should you flirt with romantic left-wing causes and give weight to communism and their friends, should that mood dominate, then it will be difficult for us to cooperate. That will be bad for you and bad for Brazil. In a Brazilian p…
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The CIA had spent as much as $20 million, and everyone involved at the U.S. Embassy from Lincoln-Gordon Down was worried about the incriminating evidence if it was made public. A scandal was averted only by three lucky developments. Five of…
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It was basically analogous to a peasant league that had no training. The groups of 11 were basically a joke, ineffective. He had heard later that Gordon had cited them as one more excuse for a military takeover. He marveled at the ambassado…
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More radical distribution of land in Japan after World War II than anything that he planned. Watching the address on television, Lincoln Gordon was irate. First of all, these oil takeovers might not be legal. Secondly, the man standing dire…
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And according to Gordon, a very dangerous man. Ribeiro had amassed a number of black marks, according to the U.S. embassy. He had attacked what was labeled the privileged ones, which, of course, is U.S. oligarchs and their favorite in the e…
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any of the political parties, it should once again be legal. All parties should be legalized to include the Communist Party, which at the time was not legal. But, you know, we've got all these communists running around, even though you're n…
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even written the president's speech, although he had no proof of that. That was going to be his new assertion. Gordon was flying to Washington for consultations over the weekend. He decided that the situation had finally become untenable. V…
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with good contact in Brazil. McNamara was not debating the merits of a military coup against a civilian president. He was convinced that it had to happen. It was not important what they called themselves. He was convinced that they were com…
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Gordon superverted the military, having packed it with so many of his supporters that the military would not be able to rise up against him. Gordon had recently coined another new phrase called over mining the government. You know, appointi…
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the generals were getting nervous. The generals believed that the civil war they were planning would drag on for three months or longer. But they believed their assurances from Gordon and their U.S. contacts that if that happened, the U.S. …
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The president was spending the Easter holidays, the president being Gouliard, the Easter holidays at his ranch. Gordon had also been a bit upset that Gouliard was so clearly preferred fishing and hunting with his sons than being president, …
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That happened on Monday night. Early the next day, Gordon, the ambassador, Vernon Walter, CIA, and Gordon Main, the deputy chief of mission for the CIA, gathered in the ambassador's office. The Army generals were unwilling to wait another d…
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In Washington, an array of top representatives of the U.S. government were edgy. The March 31st telecon to Gordon came from Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, the General of the Army Maxwell Taylor, General Andrew Amaro, CIA Director John McCone, …
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Later, top-secret communiques from the Joint Chiefs of Staff indicated how much the Pentagon was relying on Gordon and his staff to direct the U.S. role in the coup. One message stated that a 110-ton package of arms and ammunition was being…
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In addition, a carrier task force was continuing towards the South Atlantic, awaiting Gordon's word for ports of call to demonstrate naval power, which of course we've seen in so many of these things. You know, have the U.S. Navy off the co…
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Brazil at the time had their own intelligence and would know about all of these things happening. That night, March 31st, Gordon called on Kubitschek for all of the accusations of corruption and the indisputable inflation during his regime.…
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Gordon worried about securing the embassy. It's a little late for that. Situated only a couple of blocks from a very large square in front of an opera house, it could not be protected completely. Gordon remembered hearing that when Quadros …
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He ordered all of the air conditioners turned off as well because they were afraid if a fire was set on the lower floors that it would be recycled through the air conditioning vents. The ambassador had sent home most of the staff and prepar…
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P.S. The ninth floor, which is almost always the case, not necessarily nine, but the top floor was reserved for CIA and the 10th floor had the CIA communication equipment in it. Gordon ordered the documents be sent up to those three floors …
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He ringed his palace with garbage trucks and urged everyone hearing his voice to rush there and join the barricades against the supporters of Gouliard, you know, the actual president. At the U.S. Embassy, all of the Ambassador Gordon's team…
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90 minutes. Everyone in the room was aware of the historic moment that had passed. They looked to the ambassador to provide a phrase like, you know, congratulations, all of that stuff. All the ambassador responded with was turn back on the …
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It too was a democracy. While in Washington, Ambassador Gordon ran into Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General, and he was reported, at least according to Gouliard, to say, or sorry, according to Gordon, he said, well, Gouliard got what was c…
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So you can take that for what it's worth. And that's the end of chapter three. And we will not start a new chapter today that we're going to end it right there. So anyway, that's it. So yet another overthrow of a democratically elected coun…
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get information based on allegations, then you're not cut out to be their type of police and you're not cut out for training at the Office of Public Safety. Lincoln Gordon, who we know as the ambassador, the coup had first seemed to fulfill…
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If the military agreed to let him serve as president for the four months specified by law, that would have satisfied the ambassador. Instead, Gordon was informed that the new president would be Military General Branco, which seemed to satis…
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take a bad turn came when Francisco Campos, a lawyer whom Gordon regarded as an unintelligent fascist, drew up the first institutional act. Under its provisions, the government would, by decree, create a political death, a deprivation of al…
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And that frustrated Carlos Lacerda, who was hoping to become president of Brazil. The bitterness and disappointment led to many more joining the resistance. Gordon sought out a friend in the new government, Milton Campos, to protest the mil…
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Campos was obliged to hear out Gordon as he denounced the institutional act. What would Washington say, Gordon demanded, or the world? At least create a special court. Some appearance of legality. He didn't give a crap if it was a kangaroo …
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Two weeks later, Campos resigned from his post, but word got back to Bronco, who called the ambassador into his office. He had been president slightly more than two months. He assured Gordon that Kubitschek also troubled him, but he pointed…
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of Kubitschek being a bad guy. If we were to publish the reasons for his corruption, there would be a taint to Brazilian pride. Gordon accepted the explanation. He felt like he had no other choice. CIA agent Walters, whom the ambassador con…
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18 months after the coup, there was a second institutional act. I was uncomfortable with the first one, he told Branco, but it was for a limited duration. I assumed that when the emergency powers expired, we'd get back on the road. This is …
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safe enough to not keep basically martial law going on. He had accepted the emergency powers only from the highest principles. There's no high principles associated with creating a military dictatorship. Two politicians from the token oppos…
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Institutional Act had been enacted, which included the shutting down of Congress, suspended habeas corpus for political crimes, and gave full power to the president. Gordon was no longer the ambassador to Brazil. Gordon's successor, John Tu…
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conduct business off duty. So during Lyndon Johnson's administration, Lincoln Gordon's service in Brazil had been rewarded with the job of Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America Affairs. So he got promoted. Lincoln Gordon was the am…
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was taken under Gordon's wing, and prior to his departure, he was given a cram course by none other than Lincoln Gordon in Brazil's quote-unquote history. July 1969, Elbrick arrives in Brazil. At the embassy, Elbrick's reputation had preced…
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The ambassador was told to close his eyes. The year before, John Gordon Mine, Lincoln Gordon's deputy, who had been promoted to ambassador and moved to Guatemala, which is very interesting too because, of course, we were actively involved i…