The Foreign Intelligence Center and the ideological control of cinema during the 1964 dictatorship

Abstract

This study addresses the Foreign Intelligence Center (Ciex, 1966-1985), subordinate to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the 1964 military dictatorship, and analyze the documents it produced as part of the intelligence community to monitor Brazilian cinema. This research also addresses the surveillance of filmmaker Glauber Rocha as an example of data production and ideological control by the intelligence community during his six-year self-exile in Europe.

Keywords:
1964 Military Dictatorship; Brazilian cinema; Cinema and dictatorship; Information community; Surveillance on cinema; Glauber Rocha; Foreign Information Center