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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: BRAZIL: ILLEGAL WIRE-TAPPING HELPED COLLOR WIN ELECTIONS
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- ** Topic: IPS:BRASIL-Collor used wiretapping **
- ** Written 8:05 pm Nov 9, 1992 by jbinder in cdp:reg.samerica **
- From: James Binder <jbinder>
- Subject: IPS:BRASIL-Collor used wiretapping
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- Copyright Inter Press Service 1992, all rights reserved. Permission to re-
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- Title: BRAZIL: ILLEGAL WIRE-TAPPING HELPED COLLOR WIN ELECTIONS
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- rio de janeiro, 3 nov (ips) -- the illegal tapping of opponents'
- telephones was one of the tools used by fernando collor to obtain
- power in 1990, a lawyer who worked in his campaign disclosed
- tuesday.
-
- the revelation added a new element to the case of the
- suspended brazilian president, now facing impeachment by the
- senate on corruption charges.
-
- the collor case is likened by many here to the 'watergate'
- scandal, which caused the resignation of u.s. president richard
- nixon in 1974.
-
- during the second round of elections in december 1989, the
- telephone of labour party (pt) candidate luis inacio ''lula'' da
- silva was systematically tapped, lawyer octavio ramos told the
- rio de janeiro daily ''jornal de brasil.''
-
- the telephones of other personalities, including the
- provincial governor of rio de janeiro, leonel brizola, were also
- tapped.
-
- the spying operation was headed by leopoldo collor, the
- suspended president's brother, according to the lawyer, who is a
- militant of an ultra-right movement.
-
- obtaining inside information on lula and his advisors and
- knowing their plans were ''essential for the counter-information
- work,'' he added.
-
- ramos explained that right-wing groups used this information
- to throw the pt campaign out of gear, just before and during the
- election, by phoning in wrong instructions to the pt
- coordinators.
-
- moreover, the information they obtained by tapping pt phones
- enabled them to discover lula's ''weak points'', and organize the
- final offensive accordingly, thus securing collor's triumph.
-
- one of the decisive blows was to bring lula's former fiancee,
- miriam cordeiro, on television to attack the labour party
- hopeful.
-
- cordeiro has a daughter by lula, a fact which until then had
- been concealed from the public. she charged that he had
- unsuccessfully tried to pressure her into having an abortion, a
- practice condemned by most of the population of this overwhelming
- catholic country.
-
- ramos confessed that the basic information for this 'weapon'
- was picked up through the telephone tapping.
-
- he said that other intimate information also helped to guide
- the attacks by the collor camp.
-
- the lawyer absolved himself of any responsibility for the
- wire-tapping, a crime of growing importance in brazil.(more)
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- brazil: illegal (2)
-
- according to ramos, the task was carried out by technicians
- from the army's intelligence service.
-
- ''jornal de brasil'' stated that more information on the
- clandestine telephone tapping operations during the 1989
- campaigns would be revealed in a book that is being written by
- collor's former spokesman and ex-cultural attache in lisbon,
- claudio humerto rosa e silva.
-
- rosa e silva had earlier denied admitting in his book
- that collor's camp tapped lula's telephones.
- (end/ips/tr/sp/mo/cs/ybh/kb/92)
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