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  • Adolf Berle Franklin Roosevelt's assistant secretary of state for Latin American affairs, founder of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence, US ambassador to Brazil, and the connecting figure between Nelson Rockefeller's wartime CIAA apparatus and the 1964 coup deposing Joao Goulart.
  • Andrew McLellan Andrew McLellan served as the AIFLD's Brazil representative and later AFL-CIO Inter-American representative, playing a documented operational role in the labor politics that preceded the 1964 Brazilian coup and in post-coup labor restructuring for the Castelo Branco dictatorship.
  • Berent Friele Berent Friele was Nelson Rockefeller's longtime Brazil operative, a Norwegian-American coffee importer who served as Rockefeller's private eyes-and-ears in the country from the CIAA years through the 1960s, briefing US ambassadors, coordinating AIA programs, and providing intelligence assessments in the run-up to the 1964 coup.
  • Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira is a Brazilian national from Belo Horizonte designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US Treasury and State Department on January 13, 2025, for his role as a Terrorgram Collective channel administrator running at least six Telegram channels promoting accelerationist and white supremacist propaganda.
  • David Rockefeller The youngest of the five Rockefeller brothers, David Rockefeller built Chase Manhattan Bank into the primary financial instrument of the Rockefeller family's Latin American strategy, serving as the network's commercial arm while Nelson directed its political and intelligence operations.
  • Dean Rusk Rockefeller Foundation president from 1952 to 1960 who became Secretary of State under Kennedy and Johnson, sealing the Foundation's pipeline into the State Department and overseeing the diplomatic side of the 1964 Brazil coup and the 1967 Bolivia operation against Che Guevara.
  • Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni was a 16-year-old Brazilian who attacked two schools in Aracruz in November 2022, killing four, in an attack Terrorgram Collective leader Dallas Humber mentored and subsequently memorialized with saint cards.
  • Getulio Vargas The Brazilian nationalist president whose Estado Novo dictatorship and subsequent elected presidency both ended through US-backed coups, with his 1954 suicide following direct pressure from the Eisenhower administration and the US military attache over his Amazon development program.
  • Humberto Castelo Branco General Humberto Castelo Branco led the April 1964 military coup that overthrew Brazilian President Joao Goulart and served as Brazil's first post-coup military president from 1964 to 1967, overseeing mass political purges, the suppression of Petrobrás, and the opening of the Amazon to American corporate investment.
  • Jefferson Caffery Jefferson Caffery served as U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, Brazil, France, and Egypt across a 29-year chief-of-mission career, mediating the Batista-Mendieta transition in 1934, coordinating the wartime Corridor of Victory with Vargas, pressuring France to expel its Communist ministers in 1947, and brokering the Anglo-Egyptian Suez negotiations of 1954.
  • Joao Goulart The Brazilian president whose moderate nationalist reform program was destroyed by the 1964 US-backed military coup, having been targeted by a destabilization operation coordinated by the CIA, State Department, AIFLD, and the Rockefeller network beginning shortly after Kennedy's assassination.
  • Lincoln Gordon Lincoln Gordon served as U.S. Ambassador to Brazil from 1961 to 1966 and was the central American official in coordinating the 1964 military coup that overthrew President Joao Goulart, later becoming assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs.
  • Michele Prado Michele Prado is a Brazilian researcher and founder of the NGO Stop Hate Brasil who since 2022 has monitored Terrorgram Collective channels operating in Brazil, submitted reports to ABIN and the Ministry of Justice, and documented the online radicalization pipeline connected to the wave of Brazilian school attacks from 2022 onward.
  • Serafino Romualdi Serafino Romualdi was the AFL-CIO's Inter-American representative and AIFLD's first executive director, who built the CIA-connected anti-communist labor network in Latin America from the 1940s through 1965 under the CIA pseudonym 'Charles Guymers.'
  • Vernon Walters The US military attaché in Brazil whose personal relationships with coup-plotting generals helped ensure the 1964 overthrow of Joao Goulart succeeded, and who went on to become Deputy Director of the CIA under Nixon.

Organizations (6)

  • AIFLD The CIA-funded American Institute for Free Labor Development, the AFL-CIO's Latin American arm, which organized anticommunist labor unions throughout the hemisphere and whose operatives played a documented role in the 1964 Brazilian coup and other Cold War regime changes.
  • Chase Manhattan Bank Chase Manhattan Bank, led by David Rockefeller from 1961 to 1981, served as the Rockefeller family's primary financial instrument in Latin America, with its credit policies in Brazil contributing to the economic conditions that preceded the 1964 military coup.
  • FUNAI FUNAI (Fundacao Nacional do Indio) replaced the scandal-ridden SPI in 1967 under the Brazilian military dictatorship and was placed under military supervision, serving as the instrument through which the post-1964 regime managed, surveilled, and in many cases destroyed indigenous communities standing in the path of Amazon development projects.
  • IBEC Nelson Rockefeller's International Basic Economy Corporation, a private development vehicle that combined Rockefeller family commercial interests with US foreign policy goals in Latin America, becoming the economic arm of the post-CIAA Rockefeller strategy for the hemisphere.
  • SPI The Servico de Protecao aos Indios (SPI), Brazil's indigenous affairs agency from 1910 to 1967, was abolished after Attorney General Jader Figueiredo's investigation documented systematic murder, slavery, land theft, and deliberate disease introduction by its personnel, and was replaced by the military-supervised FUNAI.
  • Stop Hate Brasil Stop Hate Brasil is a Brazilian NGO founded by researcher Michele Prado that monitors far-right extremist networks online, with a particular focus on the Terrorgram Collective's Brazilian infrastructure, and has served as a consulting partner to ABIN and the Ministry of Justice and Public Security since 2023.

Programs (1)

  • Operation Brother Sam The US naval task force secretly dispatched to Brazilian waters in April 1964 to support the military coup deposing President Joao Goulart, representing the operational culmination of a US covert destabilization program coordinated by the CIA, State Department, and Rockefeller family networks.

Events (4)

  • 2022 Aracruz School Shootings On November 25, 2022, 16-year-old Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni attacked two schools in Aracruz, Brazil wearing AWD-associated symbols, killing four and wounding eleven in an attack attributed to Terrorgram Collective mentorship under Dallas Humber.
  • 2023 Brazil Telegram Suspension Order On April 26, 2023, Federal Judge Wellington Lopes da Silva of Espírito Santo ordered a nationwide suspension of Telegram and daily fines of approximately US$198,000 after the platform refused to produce subscriber data from two neo-Nazi channels, 'Brazilian Anti-Semitic Movement' and 'Anti-Semitic Front,' which had been recovered from a school shooting suspect's phone; the suspension was lifted April 28, 2023 after partial compliance.
  • Colares Incidents Wave of UAP encounters in 1977 on the island of Colares, Brazil, where residents reported being attacked by beams of radiation from unknown craft.
  • Operation Bergon Operation Bergon was a December 2021 joint operation between US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations and Brazilian federal authorities that executed 31 search warrants and four arrests across seven Brazilian states, disrupting neo-Nazi cells planning mass casualty attacks including a planned bombing of the Angra dos Reis nuclear power plant.

Places (1)

  • Brazil Brazil under its military dictatorship (1964-1985) participated in Operation Condor and was a refuge for Nazi war criminals including Josef Mengele; the CIA supported the 1964 coup and the subsequent military government that operated death squads and maintained the DOPS secret police.