ARREST OF AGENTS OF REVOLUTIONARY GROUPS IN PORTUGAL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000600730010-8
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 20, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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COUNTRY Portugal
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
SUBJECT Arrest of Agents of Revolutionary Groups in
Portugal
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The following report
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is a detsiled acooent of the conspiracy eeainst
the Salazarregime and the arrests on 16 and 16 May 1947 resulting eterefroa?
as previously reported
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1. It had been brought to the attention of the FIDE that several revolntionary
groups in Portugal had had a meeting and had set definite plans of etivity
for the future. The PIDE had investigated this report and the reser:, was
that at 5 p.m. on 16 May they closed down on an apartment situated -e Rua
Castilho 57, 4th floor, Lisbon, and found plans of the Grand? Conselho
Nacional de Libertacao (Grand National Council of Liberation). Thi
apartment was used as headeuarters for a committe, of proxies delegated by
individuals and revolutionary groups. It was there that the P1DE found
the constitution and plans mentioned in the previous report, They also
found the charts of sabotage organiaations and maps which gave in (template
detail how the military uprising was to be spread. The revolution -qthin
the military was to commence at Braga, in the northern part of the country,
and thence proceed first to tala Real, than to Chaves, :lorto, Matozirhos?
and south to Coimbra and Tomer. Lisbon was to be taken over by having the
PSP (Felicia da Seguranca Publioa - Publics Security Police) neutralize?
by force if neceesary, the FIDE sad take police control of the capital?
Plans had been laid to sabotage every radio station in fortugal ex c It the
one at Sao Mamede, which was to be used to give insteastions to the. .evo-
lutionary groups that were trying to take over the city of Lisbon.
2. The above-mentioned committee was known as the Organizacao de Govereo
Transitorio (Transitional Government Organization), and was headed by
CaLestino Soares, assisted by Carlos Lobo. The oonmtitution provie-
that the provisional government was to be headed by Admiral Atone?
Cerqueira, as President of the Republic; General Jose Coudinho was to
be Prime lAinister. The cabinet'posts were to be distributed as followm:
Document No.
War:
Gemmunications:
Public Works:'
Justice:
Poreiga Affairs and
Administration of Colonies:
Interior:
Education:
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Col, Celso Magalhaes
Brigadier Antonio Maia
Brigadier Corregidor Martine te
Judge and Counsellor Diogo Sarmento
Colonel Carlos Aftonso doe Santos, also
known as Carlos Selvagem .
Brigadier Santos Correia
Colonel Albano Rodrigues
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The ministries of Marine and Economy were not specifically mentioned. Two
more names were discovered as proposed ministers in the Provisional govern'
merit, but there was no indication that they were to have these poate. They
were Brigadier Vasco 4eCarvalho and Colonel Bento Ferreira. There were
two under seoretariee mentioned in the list without exact designation and
only described as Engineer Gales and Engineer Castilho.
3. General Catmona, the present president of the republic, out of respect for
his advanced age and his general popularity, was to be put in a residence
forcee compatible with his former position. All other members.of the
government, including Salazar, his ministers and sub-secretaries, were to
be seized and incarcerated without exception, and all were to be tried.
4. At the meeting broken up by the police, the principals mentioned below
were represented by the proxies indicated:
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Principal
Portuguese-Freemasonry
October Fifth Political Group,
October 5 being the day on
which the Portuguese Republic
was proclaimed
The monarchists
A group of dissident army
officers in Lisbon
Agate? Lancs.
General Norton de Matos, an
opposition leader of long
standing
Uniao Socialista
The Catholic group
Frente Nacional anti-Fascista
Partido Republican? Popular
Movimento de Unidade Democratic:la
- MUD
Partido Communista Portugues
Esquerda Democratica
Jose Domingos dos Santosa?now in
Paris
Pestanha, Jr. (full name unknown)
Comite Essuerda Democratica
Antonio Maria da Silva
Domineos Pereira
Colonel Hilder Ribeiro
Centro Republican? Alexandre
Braga
Centro Republican? Magalhaes
Lima
Juan Lopes Soares
Cunha Leal
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Ramiro Reis e Sousa, solicitor, who
resides in Carnaxide; his office is
with Reis Lacerda Ltda., at Rua des
Pedras Negras 24e
Captain Carlos Jesus Vilhana, who
lives at Avenida Almirante Reis 37.
Carlos Jesus Vilhana
Carlos Jesus Vilhana
Carlos Jesus Vilhana
Rafael Seruya
Rafael Seruya
Rafael Seruya
Fernando Vasco de Game, a lawyer by
profession and director of Victoria
Films.
Fernando Vasco de Game
Melillo Cabral, druggist
Bandeiro de Mattos
Dr. Antonio de Carvalho, a.physieiano
residing at Rua Rodrigoda Fonsoca 49.
Antonio de Carvalho
Antonio de Carvalho
Pedro Bogarim, a lawyer
Di. Silva Araujo,
Silva Araujo
Silva Araujo
Silva Araujo
Silva Araujo
Carlos Lobo
Carlos Lobo
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Principal Emu.
Centro Republicano Almirante Reis
J .0 *R.N. Republ can a, believed
to be the 7unta des Organi-
zacoes Revolueionari as
Naeionais Republicanas
Geraldo Soares
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5. All the agents mentioned above were arrested and were in custody as of
16 May; no action had yet been taken against the organizations or ag9inst
the persons whom these agents represtmted.
6. Natalia Correia, the representative of Seara Nova (New Harvest), was not
at the meeting and was therefore still at liberty. The agent of the
Partido Socialista Portugues succeeded in escaping, was still at liberty
and had not been identified as of 16 May.
7. Evidence was found that the MUD .had gathered a fund of over Esc. 100,000
for the maintenance of families or workers who participated in the April
strike's.
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nffileting the national.ns a of the
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3. ,71,1 amended s transmission or the
rcrslation o s contents in any
mamma? to unauthorized person is
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