{"id":181,"date":"2012-09-14T16:21:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T16:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/wecannotremainsilent\/?page_id=181"},"modified":"2020-05-20T19:42:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T19:42:45","slug":"telegram-from-lincoln-gordon-29-march-1964","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/chapters\/chapter-1-revolution-and-counterrevolution-in-brazil\/the-u-s-government-and-the-1964-coup\/telegram-from-lincoln-gordon-29-march-1964\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram from Lincoln Gordon (29 March 1964)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador Gordon updates high-ranking U.S. officials on the situation in Brazil (the day before the coup). <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2012\/08\/lincolngordontelegram.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In this cable<\/a>, he stresses the need to have a secret shipment of weapons &#8220;pre-positioned prior to any outbreak of violence.&#8221; He discusses the possibility of attribution of the coup to the United States: &#8220;risk of later attribution to U.S. government covert operations seems minor to us in relation to positive effects if the operation is conducted with skill.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador Gordon updates high-ranking U.S. officials on the situation in Brazil (the day before the coup). In this cable, he stresses the need to have a secret shipment of weapons &#8220;pre-positioned prior to any outbreak of violence.&#8221; He discusses the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/chapters\/chapter-1-revolution-and-counterrevolution-in-brazil\/the-u-s-government-and-the-1964-coup\/telegram-from-lincoln-gordon-29-march-1964\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":132,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-181","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions\/2801"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/wecannotremainsilent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}