Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP), Anti-Communism, and the US Intelligence Community
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intelligence services, religion and politics, Cold War, conservative thought, ideologiesAbstract
The following article investigates the positions of the United States intelligence community in terms of the potential alignment, or not, between the Brazilian fundamentalist Catholic group with anti-communist leanings, Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP) and the anti-communist crusade led by Washington during the period of the Cold War (1947-1991). Selected sources of investigation are documents declassified by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) available from the agency itself and the US Department of State, which were published by the Opening the Archives project at Brown University. The sources were approached according to the method of document analysis and from the theoretical prism of Mannheim’s interpretation of styles of thought. As a result, we identify that the American declassified documents recognize the TFP’s potential to indirectly meet the US’s needs in Brazilian territory, despite the fact that the organization was deemed by the American intelligence Community to be incompatible with Brazilian Catholicism’s world view and its sometimes irrational actions were also not aligned with the anti-communist standards proposed by Washington.
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