Article: National Security Archive materials show U.S. President Johnson anxious to back 1964 Brazilian coup

TOM MURPHY, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
03-31-2004
Dateline: SAO PAULO, Brazil
Documents and an audio tape released Wednesday by a Washington-based non-governmental research group showed U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson anxious "to take every step that we can" to support a 1964 military coup in Brazil.

The documents were released by the National Security Archive to the group's Web site (www.nsarchive.org) to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the coup, which led to 21 years of military rule in Brazil. The group is a non-governmental foreign policy documentation center.

In one document, Johnson instructs aides "to take every step that we can, be prepared to do everything that we ...

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