Brazil: Lula’s former chief of Security falsified January 8 report, says newspaper

General Gonçalves Dias, former minister-in-chief of the Institutional Security Cabinet (GSI) in the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva administration, doctored one of the intelligence reports sent to Congress about the January 8 demonstration in Brasília.

The newspaper O Globo published the information on Wednesday, 31.

The Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) prepared two reports on the episode.

The comparison of this material shows that Dias would have removed from one of the documents the records that he was informed of the risks of invasion of the headquarters of the Three Branches.

Lawmakers who had access to the tampered material found that the document does not show the 11 alerts the former chief minister of GSI received on his cell phone between January 6 and 8.

The report was delivered to the Mixed Committee for Control of Intelligence Activities (CCAI) of the National Congress and signed by Dias’ deputy director, Saulo Moura da Cunha.

THE WARNINGS SENT TO THE FORMER CHIEF MINISTER OF LULA’S GSI

The warnings appear in another version of the same document, delivered by Abin to the CCAI on May 8.

The first version was sent to Congress at the request of the CCAI, while the second was sent by order of Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Court.

At the time, the magistrate responded to a request from the Prosecutor General’s Office.

In the second version of the document, signed by the current deputy director of Abin, Alessandro Moretti, are 11 alerts sent to Dias’ cell phone.

These messages clarified the “risk of violent actions against public buildings and authorities.”

“We highlight the call by caravan organizers for the displacement of protesters with access to weapons and the manifest intention to invade the National Congress,” reports an excerpt from the document, sent at 7:40 pm on January 6.

“Other buildings on the Esplanade of Ministries could be the target of the violent actions.”

The next day, a new alert: eight buses from other states would arrive in Brasilia on January 8 to strengthen the camp in front of the Army Headquarters.

“There are still calls for violent actions and attempts to occupy public buildings, especially in the Ministries Esplanade,” he says.

But it doesn’t stop there.

Dias received another message, this time on January 8, warning about one hundred buses that had already arrived in Brasília.

Since then, the former minister of Lula says that he was not informed of the acts of vandalism at the headquarters of the Three Powers.

Because the document was tampered with, the issue should be the focus of the CPMI’s work on January 8.

With information from Revista Oeste

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