Training and instruction of information agents in Brazil’s military governments

Abstract

In 1964, a coup-plotting alliance, whose most visible group was the military, took command of Brazilian politics. Since then, a complicated security and intelligence-gathering scheme was developed with the aim of combating possible opponents of the military governments that have succeeded one another in the country. This article deals with the information community, in the sense of analyzing the training of agents, the instructions they received, and the knowledge produced by the military corporation to support the various courses they organized. The sources are the materials produced and/or gathered by the National School of Information for its different training courses, available at the National Archive of Rio de Janeiro.