According to documents from the General Staff of the Armed Forces, kept in the Brazilian National Archives that will be made public in June and to which the newspaper Estadão had access, Brazil set up an “information search network” on the conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom. United.
In the documents of the General Staff of the Brazilian Armed Forces, the purpose was bypass Argentine censorship.
“To overcome this obstacle, in addition to the usual contacts with the Intelligence sectors of the General Staff of each of the Argentine Forces -generally evasive and reticent-, a closer relationship was sought with other trusted military attaches, who were more active and dynamic in the monitoring of the conflict”, the document wields, as stated by Estadão.
A month after the invasion, the English operation to retake the islands began. Brazil helped the Argentines, with intelligence and weapons, but at the same time sought to maintain a good relationship with the United Kingdom.
The report indicates that on the night of March 26, 1982, the Military Junta met, its members were General Leopoldo Galtieri, head of the Army and President of the Republic; Brigadier Basilio Lami Dozo, for the Air Force; and Admiral Jorge Isaac Anaya, for the Navy. Foreign Minister Costa Méndez also attended the secret meeting.
Information obtained from the local Air Force General Staff has indicated that “on the day of the invasion, April 2, 1982, the operation was scheduled for May or June, when weather conditions would be most unfavorable to the British.”
The precariousness of the military means for an external confrontation, especially with professional troops from a power like the United Kingdom, was evident and the adventure was not advised. “The position of the United States was misunderstood”says the official document from Brazil, based on information gathered by soldiers in training in Argentina and high-ranking Argentine officers, as well as journalists.
“Argentina’s collaboration in the conflictive Central American region would lead one to suppose that the United States government would force a diplomatic solution.” A bloodless action was expected to cause the UK to negotiate. “The English reaction was not estimated”plays Estadão.
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On the other hand, the researcher Martins Filho affirmed that another way in which Brazil obtained information from Argentina was thanks to crack the code of encrypted communications of the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Among the main concerns of the military regime in Brazil was to obtain information on the aid of the USSR, Cuba and Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya to the Galtieri dictatorship.
According to the documents, Libya undertook to send Soviet SAM-6 and SAM-7 missiles via the Tripoli, Canary Islands, Recife and Buenos Aires route.
Brazil followed the Argentine nuclear program with particular attention. The Navy Information Center reported that Argentina’s negotiations with the USSR provided for the shipment of 100 kilograms of enriched uranium to Buenos Aires.
Brasilia feared the establishment of Russian bases in the country.
The Falklands War claimed the lives of 255 British soldiers and 650 Argentine fighters.
Source: Ambito
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