Polícia política, inteligência e segurança na ditadura militar (1964-1984)

Abstract

The Political and Social Police Divisions fulfilled a prominent role in relation to Intelligence activity in Brazil during much of the 20th century. After the civil-military coup of 1964, the importance of the police apparatus was re-dimensioned within the Information and Security Systems built during the dictatorship that followed. In this sense, we intend to analyze the police work in relation to the domestic Intelligence within these systems and, in a broader sense, of the repressor project intended by the military governments. Such analysis, having as source the documentation produced by the Political Police in the period, will be given from the conceptual definition of Intelligence as a work that involves the secret and is destined to the collection and analysis of data in order to produce knowledge. Considering that it is a police organization, we take into account that the production of this information carried out a process of criminalization of the political opposition to the regime. What we want to demonstrate is that the police know-how and its database were fundamental for the Security project intended in that context, both by the agency's acting as a legal police and in the production of information that fed the said system.