This CIA weekly update provides State Department employees with a brief background on IA-5.

This State Department telegram states: “a public statement at a high government level deploring the setback in the development of Brazilian democracy is called for, and important to encourage friends of democracy in Brazil, but it should not point the finger too accurately at the persons or groups responsible. These people, while nationalistic and narrow, are fundamentally favorable to the US and can be counted on to side with us.”

In this document, Department of State Executive Secretary Benjamin Read describes the department’s official line on Costa e Silva’s “out and out military dictatorship,” stating, “Until the situation clarifies we are quietly expressing our regret at the reduction of human liberty apparently taking place in Brazil, and simultaneously, without public criticism or admonition, slowing or stopping those programmed economic actions which could be thought to be evidence of US approval of the present actions of GOB.”