Charles Burke Elbrick person
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Fernando Gabeira carried_out_attack
Charles Burke Elbrick documented
“but he would not close his eyes either. So they hit him over the head with the gun. His captors prodded him out of the Cadillac and into the Volkswagen bus. He was ordered to lay down and they put a tarp over him. After they had driven arou…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 8 @ 10:36
Charles Burke Elbrick member_of
U.S. State Department documented
“And Elbrick's origins come from Louisville, Kentucky. He went to Williams College and he joined the diplomatic corps two years after he graduated. He worked his way up through Panama and Haiti, which I find very interesting, given the opera…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 8 @ 5:39
Charles Burke Elbrick succeeded
John Tuthill 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 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
Charles Burke Elbrick member_of
U.S. State Department host_asserted
“Elbrick took it as a bluff, a way of unnerving him. He said, no, no, I've worked in the diplomatic service. I'm not in the CIA. His kidnapper says we know otherwise. The truth was that in the two months Elbrick had been in Brazil, he had no…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 8 @ 19:34
Charles Burke Elbrick carried_out_attack
Kidnapping of Charles Burke Elbrick documented
“The Brazilian authorities have been informed of the demands of the people who are holding me. They should not try to find out where I am, which might be dangerous, but hurry to meet the conditions for my release. The people, of course, are …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 8 @ 39:46
Richard Nixon appointed
Charles Burke Elbrick documented
“So the entire time that the ambassador is having conversations with those people about Mao and all of these other people, those kidnappers had recorded everything. Elbrick did not know that his diplomatic career was over. When an aide told …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 8 @ 46:05
Charles Burke Elbrick member_of
U.S. State Department documented
“was summoned back to Washington for consultations with Secretary Rogers and other State Department officials. In their meeting, Elbrick asked them whether the department really wanted him to serve out his tour in Brazil. His superiors agree…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 8 @ 52:12
Fernando Gabeira carried_out_attack
Charles Burke Elbrick host_asserted
“once she was imprisoned. She had joined one of the rebellion groups. They were both a military and a political group. The decision was not Angela's to make. She was assigned to the political side. The military members took the risks, steali…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 9 @ 16:46
Charles Burke Elbrick kidnapped_by
Tupamaros documented
“the Tuporeros were demanding. That ambassador, his name Charles Burke Elbrick, had been released with nothing worse than a bruise on his head. The family knew that Dan's condition had to be more serious than that. Wire services reported tha…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 46:25
Charles Burke Elbrick appointed
Brazil documented
“What we are seeing is it applied to us. So enough about that. All right. We're on chapter six and chapter six starts off with a man by the name of Charles Burke Elbrick, E-L-B-R-I-C-K. He's the newly appointed ambassador to Brazil. So we've…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 8 @ 5:06
Charles Burke Elbrick spied_on
CIA documented
“weren't paying too much attention to him at that point. When they kept coming back to the CIA, Elbrick suggested names of Brazilians who might be CIA agents. The kidnappers decided to open Elbrick's briefcase. Fernando saw that as taking a …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 8 @ 22:03
Charles Burke Elbrick member_of
CIA host_asserted
“They begin talking to him. Mr. Elbrick, we know all about you. And they're speaking in Portuguese at this point. The rebels had agreed before the abduction that even though several of them spoke English, they would not make the work of inte…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 8 @ 19:03
Mentions (54)
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and her comrades in Latin America struggling for social justice, national dignity, and peace. Burke Elbrecht, in retirement, attended the funeral of Cleo Noel Jr., an ambassador killed in the Sudan with his counselor and another diplomat. A…
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And Elbrick going home and his doctor checking him out and he just coincidentally had a stroke while he's at the doctor's office. That's where we left off last time. So while Burke Elbrick was serving out the end of his career, Fernando Gab…
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He had began to bleed from his penis and other areas where they were shocking him. He had already lost 30 pounds. So when they learned who he was, they stepped up interrogations in hopes of rounding up the rest of Elbrick's kidnappers.…
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and Fernando had discovered that the police had found the recordings the rebels had made of the ambassador. Although Elbrick's open contempt for the military enraged them, the police destroyed the tapes because his sentiments would be damag…
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She helped run a thrift store for the women from the U.S. consulate. The Tupamaros allowed the new chief advisor no time at all for settling in before they made another dramatic strike. It had been more than a year since Piera Revolval had …
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After spending four years in Monteviego, he knew them like a book, he said, and they were not bad people. That was the phrase Ray remembered, not bad people. In addition, the newspaper sometimes recounted the fate of other kidnapped victims…
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the Tuporeros were demanding. That ambassador, his name Charles Burke Elbrick, had been released with nothing worse than a bruise on his head. The family knew that Dan's condition had to be more serious than that. Wire services reported tha…
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What we are seeing is it applied to us. So enough about that. All right. We're on chapter six and chapter six starts off with a man by the name of Charles Burke Elbrick, E-L-B-R-I-C-K. He's the newly appointed ambassador to Brazil. So we've…
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And Elbrick's origins come from Louisville, Kentucky. He went to Williams College and he joined the diplomatic corps two years after he graduated. He worked his way up through Panama and Haiti, which I find very interesting, given the opera…
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And just before World War II, he was in Poland, which again is very interesting. Elbrick and his wife Elvira, that's an interesting name, was used to the finer things in life, like the ballet, the orchestra, and that type of thing. Elbrick …
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in-crowd clubs in Washington, D.C. during his assignments in the district, such as the Metropolitan Club, the Chevy Chase Club. And a lot of these clubs were famous for, because they talk about them a lot in Frank Wisner's book, they were n…
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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.…
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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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And the fears of his new staff were not eased when Mrs. Elbrick explained firmly that a charity reception previously scheduled for the ambassador's resident had to be canceled because she was not making her home open to anyone. Although Bra…
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Elbrick went on living in the official residence in Rio's district. He also had a chauffeur whose last name, or it's Costudio Abel de Salvo. That's the name of his chauffeur. The resident was in the middle of a one-way street making its way…
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Elbrick looked to see what was wrong. Four men yanked open his door and began shouting. We are Brazilian revolutionaries. They pointed automatic rifles at the ambassador and pushed the driver to the middle seat. They forced Elbrick to lay d…
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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…
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in the northern section of Rio to serve as a headquarters for an underground newspaper that Fernando was editing. They decided to use this house to bring Burke Elbrick to. They decided that using the symbolism of their Independence Day woul…
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The girl, when she was there, basically kind of flirted with the guy in order to find out what the security was like. That's how they actually were able to apprehend the ambassador. So it goes on and talks about the planning of the kidnappi…
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And Fernando acts shocked and says, no, I didn't know. And the driver says, it's a pity that you are so disconnected from reality. Many things are happening in the world. And he kind of just chuckles to himself. So now that they had him, th…
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They begin talking to him. Mr. Elbrick, we know all about you. And they're speaking in Portuguese at this point. The rebels had agreed before the abduction that even though several of them spoke English, they would not make the work of inte…
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Elbrick took it as a bluff, a way of unnerving him. He said, no, no, I've worked in the diplomatic service. I'm not in the CIA. His kidnapper says we know otherwise. The truth was that in the two months Elbrick had been in Brazil, he had no…
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since he wouldn't have any of the actual CIA details available to him. But would they torture him? We don't like to treat our prisoners the way Brazilian police treat theirs, the man said in response. Come on, Mr. Ambassador, you don't expe…
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In Brazil had been, as Elbrick put it, misbehaving. The CIA man was maintaining a wife and a child in Rio and a girlfriend also from the U.S. in Brasilia. And everybody in Rio knew this. In Elbrick's view, the man was simply had been statio…
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that what he was doing was wrong. But when Elbrick told the chief that he would have to recommend a transfer, the man had pleaded not to do it. Now pressed by his captors repeatedly for CIA names, Elbrick said, one officer in the political …
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The man, after all, had already made a muddle of everything in the ambassador's opinion. What if they got that man, too, with their knowing about his CIA connections? The man would surely be finished. What Elbrick had done made him sick wit…
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weren't paying too much attention to him at that point. When they kept coming back to the CIA, Elbrick suggested names of Brazilians who might be CIA agents. The kidnappers decided to open Elbrick's briefcase. Fernando saw that as taking a …
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Here they had better luck than with their direct questions. Elbrick was carrying no documents stamped secret, but he had been on a planning trip to Sao Paulo the following week and there were files drawn up to brief him. Drawing on CIA file…
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the kidnappers going through his papers and exclaiming at all of the different names. Was Elbrick going to meet with the minister of mines? Then it behooved him to know the man's sister was something about the man's sister who seemed to be …
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That sent Jean-Marc rushing into imprisonment. With the president disabled, the country was being ran by the military. Elbrick was new to Brazil, but he had no special fondness for generals, and he thought the vice president should be the o…
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by institutional acts. Under that, the military was perfectly legal. Elbrick had found that an odd reply. Now trying to strike a sympathetic chord, he repeated that he had not been satisfied with it. In his briefcase, the rebels also came a…
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which amused him that they were so thoughtful to give him his medicine. They also gave him a cigar. At the U.S. Embassy, the mood was not tranquil. By 5 p.m., the staff officially deemed to have the closest ties with the ruling military gen…
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the guys, and there is a C-130 that is supposed to take them out tomorrow afternoon. By Saturday morning, the kidnappers had started believing that the government was indeed going to meet their demands. It was not widely publicized within B…
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Spread across the front page was a fax that was his note to his wife. The ambassador taxed the rebels with this breach of his privacy and they apologized. But if we had sent it through the mail, it would have taken a week. And then they rea…
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The Brazilian authorities have been informed of the demands of the people who are holding me. They should not try to find out where I am, which might be dangerous, but hurry to meet the conditions for my release. The people, of course, are …
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and had stopped for fuel in two different locations. It was estimated that the prisoners would travel 4,000 miles in about 16 hours. On Sunday afternoon, Fernando and his group received confirmation the plane had landed in Mexico City and t…
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There was a major soccer game that night and they were going to take him to the stadium. He also washed Elbrick's expensive silk necktie and gave it back to him, not realizing that it was ruined because it had been washed. When darkness cam…
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Then you're at liberty to do whatever you want. Elbrick said, why 15 minutes? You've been here three and a half days, the rebel said. 15 minutes isn't too long. There were six of them, again, a driver, another man, a guy with a pistol, and …
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The driver said, should we get out and run for it? I don't think so. They sped up going around lines of cars. At last, Elbrick felt the tension dissolve and he assumed that they had lost their pursuers. Behind the blindfold, he could not kn…
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The lead car pulled to a quiet corner and the driver told Elbrick to remove his blindfold. They shook hands and set the ambassador free. Elbrick went up to the first man he saw and asked where he was. It was a area near the soccer stadium a…
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The driver let out two women, circled around and opened the door for Elbrick. He gave him the address and the man swirled around and said, you're the ambassador from the U.S. Are you not? Get in. Turning on the radio, the cab driver picked …
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and the police. When Elbrick drove up, there was a wild shout. Enough policemen surrounded the cab that they could have picked it up and carried it to the front door. Newsmen from the U.S. television stations crowded around, and Elbrick bas…
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So he said that he was very grateful to the Brazilian government, and he added to Coyne as an understatement, he was glad to be back, but he could not bring himself to denounce the kidnappers. He could say that they were misguided, that the…
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By his remark, they knew the strain on the military and that at any time it could be over. Now the victim was saying that the quote unquote terrorists were really nice young men who had gone astray. If Elbert's own staff was disturbed, the …
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So the entire time that the ambassador is having conversations with those people about Mao and all of these other people, those kidnappers had recorded everything. Elbrick did not know that his diplomatic career was over. When an aide told …
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Everyone was curious about their conversation, but all Elbrick remembered was a formal exchange of appropriate platitudes. With any luck, releasing Elbrick might have ended the chapter for Fernando and his colleagues. Since one of the most …
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It is a much better place. And someone asked him if what he asked one of the reporters, do my parents know that I've been released? And the reporter Flavio said back to him, they didn't even know I'd been arrested. Soon after the release, B…
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was summoned back to Washington for consultations with Secretary Rogers and other State Department officials. In their meeting, Elbrick asked them whether the department really wanted him to serve out his tour in Brazil. His superiors agree…
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apologizing for the inconvenience. Why shouldn't he go back and capitalize on that? Within the week, Elbrick was flying back to Rio. He was glad at least that he was not giving the appearance of quitting under fire. But once on the job, he …
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of the kidnapping, so everywhere he went, he was encircled by 20 to 25 military guards. Elbrick always had thought of diplomacy as a peaceable occupation, and this was a constant reminder that it was not. The U.S. ambassador rolling through…
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an ambassadorship. They changed out the Brazilian security team as well. Worst of all, all the sympathy feelings that the kidnapped had aroused in the ambassador would not go away. Behind the scenes, the military generals was agitating for …
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for his lack of a condemnation of the rebels. Art Maurer, who was a well-connected Brazilian military official, saw the ambassador only on a Friday staff meeting. Elbrick never requested a military briefing. One day, Mauro ran into Elbrick …
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would you consider hosting a luncheon for the commander of First Army? It might be useful to us. Elbrick said, I don't have time for those people. It could not go on this way. Within three months, Elbrick was letting friends in the State De…
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Most embassy officials felt that the doctor was practicing more diplomacy than medicine. Elbrick went home as his doctors in Georgetown was examining. He suffered a stroke, which is really convenient. Once he recovered, he was not going bac…