The Brazilian Institutional Security Cabinet (GSI), responsible for protecting the Planalto Palace, admitted that it did not make intelligence reports before or after the January 8 attacks in Brasilia (DF).
The information was passed on to the press by the GSI itself in response to a request made by O Globo newspaper to the Army Command through access to information law.
“The Institutional Security Cabinet of the Presidency of the Republic (GSI-PR) did not receive or produce the opinions, intelligence reports, letters, documents, communiqués, and e-mails requested,” says the GSI statement.
In addition to the GSI, sources connected to the Ministry of Defense confirmed to the newspaper the inexistence of intelligence reports on the eve of the acts.
O Globo also states that inside the government, “it is not known whether the flaws in the GSI’s actions are the result of leniency, incompetence, or some kind of collaboration” with the demonstrations, classified as “coup-like” by the newspaper.
In the answer sent to the newspaper, the GSI also affirmed that it “does not have access to the operational plans of the Brazilian Army” for the protection of the headquarters of the Republic.
With information from Brasil Sem Medo