O serviço secreto do Itamaraty (CIEX) e sua participação nos anos de chumbo : o monitoramento do Cone Sul (1966-1979)

Abstract

In this research, we understand how the Foreign Information Center operated in the Southern Cone, especially in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile. To do this, we seek to trace the path of creation of the Escola Superior de Guerra, which theorized about the area of information and specifications within its Basic Manual, the guidelines that influenced the creation of the information community created during the period of the Brazilian Military Dictatorship. As well as the adoption of the National Security Doctrine and the notion of Ideological Borders, contextualizing and understanding the nuances that involved them. The documentation used originates from the National Archive platform – National Archive Information Service (SIAN) and the fund used was CIEX itself. From this perspective, we can examine how the organization worked within the information community through a new perspective that focuses on the production of reports that aim to report on the internal situation of the Southern Cone countries, their political, economic, and combat conflicts. to communist movements. We can see that the documentation at times emphasizes themes that are important to diplomatic relations between Brazil and these countries, bringing to the context how this relationship has developed throughout history, especially between Brazil and Argentina due to their dispute geopolitics to consolidate a hegemonic position in Latin America. Finally, we realized that this information could have been used by Brazilian foreign policy decision-makers to move around in the international environment.