Uncle Sam's ugly faces.
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The US ambassador at the time, Lincoln Gordon, and the military attaché, Colonel Vernon A. Walters, kept in constant contact with President Lyndon B. Johnson. Johnson urged taking action to support the overthrow of João Goulart by the military, as action against the "left-wing" Goulart government. Despite President Johnson's concerns about Goulart, the coup was originally devised by the John F. Kennedy Administration. Starting in 1961, the CIA initiated a psychological warfare campaign against Goulart in an effort to disrupt his ability to hold power. Taped White House conversations revealed that President Kennedy began plans to "strengthen the spine" of Brazil's military in July 1962 and later told his top aides in March 1963 that "We've got to do something about Brazil.
CIA involvement
In the telegraphs, Gordon also acknowledges US involvement in "covert support for pro-democracy street rallies...and encouragement [of] democratic and anti-communist sentiment in Congress, armed forces, friendly labor, and student groups, church, and business" and that he "may be requesting modest supplementary funds for other covert action programs in the near future.".
The actual operational files of the CIA remain classified, preventing historians from accurately gauging the CIA's direct involvement in the coup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Brazilian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
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