This document recounts that the Argentine Federal Police had completed an operation in hotels in Buenos Aires in order to seize weapons. In the Hotel Madrid, two Brazilians, one Bolivian, and a Uruguayan were arrested, all of whom were political exiles who had arrived from Chile through the Argentine Embassy. Appendix a) mentions other Brazilian citizens, specifically the former major Joaquim Pires Cerveira and João Batista Rita, who had supposedly been handed over to the Brazilian authorities.

This report states that the Brazilian private consulate in the Argentine city of Alvear had received a tip-off from the customs authorities at Brazil’s Itaqui Port that the Argentine Alberto Rosales had entered Brazilian territory via the port on 26th August 1974, travelling in a red car and accompanied by a woman. Rosales was on a wanted list in Argentina and had received a prison order, according to information provided by the customs authorities in Alvear. The document is unsigned.

In this document, the Brazilian Centro de Informações do Exterior (Centre of Foreign Information, CIEX) requests information about the Brazilian national Sydney José Marques in order to confirm if he is the same person as Sydney Marques, the member of the Brazilian Revolutionary Communist Party’s (Partido Comunista Revolucionário) leadership. It also requests any further information to help identify Sydney Marques. The letter is unsigned and only a stamp can be seen at the bottom.

This report recounts that one of Brizola’s relatives, João Calixto, took a three-day trip from Porto Alegre (Brazil) to Montevideo (Uruguay) to deliver a report about the military situation in Brazil. The report states that the former governor of Rio Grande do Sul state (southern Brazil) would be “inactive” from thereafter, considering that nothing more could be done in Brazil. Brizola was living in an estancia in the Uruguayan department of Durazno.

This document recounts that the Cuban Intelligence Directorate (G2) agent, Sonia Lafoz was having a romantic affair with the former Brazilian naval attaché, Joaquim Cerveira in Chile. He disclosed to Sonia that, after having received information about Edmur Camargo’s trip, he had contacted the aeronautic attaché in Buenos Aires, who was going to lead the operation to arrest Camargo. The news spread quickly among Brazilian exiles. Sonia managed to convince Cerveira to give her Camargo’s flight details.

This report recounts that Joaquim Pires Cerveira and other Brazilian exiles in Chile suspected that an aeronautics attaché in Buenos Aires was responsible for Edmur Camargo’s disappearance. Cerveira was able to get hold of copies of records from the airline LAN-Chile confirming that Camargo had been forced to get off the aeroplane signed by the pilot in Ezeiza. This information clarifies doubts as to whether Camargo was actually arrested. There is no signature and the document is stamped at the bottom.

This report records that Brazilian exiles in Chile were worried about the disappearance of Edmur Péricles Camargo. In response, they handed a document to the Chilean Interior Ministry recounting Camargo’s trajectory and his journey to Montevideo on 16th June 1971 for health reasons. Camargo was due to return on 10th July but he had not contacted any of his comrades, who had received information that he had been kidnapped by Argentine and Brazilian police agents and later handed over to the Brazilian authorities. There is no signature and only a stamp can be seen at the bottom.

This report records that the Brazilian exile Edmur Péricles Camargo, nicknamed “Gauchão”, travelled on the LAN No.153 flight from Santiago (Chile) to Montevideo (Uruguay). He was carrying three letters with him: the first, which was addressed to a Uruguayan doctor, was actually a communication between Brazilian exiles in Uruguay and the Tupamaros guerrilla organisation. Edmur had been told not to contact Leonel Brizola and his followers in Uruguay. There is no signature and only a stamp can be seen at the bottom.