#Coup
6 entries tagged Coup.
People (3)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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 (2)
- Business Plot 1933 alleged conspiracy by Wall Street financiers including the DuPont family to overthrow President Roosevelt and install a fascist dictatorship.
- Golpe Borghese The Golpe Borghese was a fascist coup attempt in Italy on the night of December 7-8, 1970, organized by Prince Junio Valerio Borghese and the Fronte Nazionale, involving several hundred armed men who seized the Interior Ministry's armory before Borghese abruptly called off the operation.