The Instituto Brasileiro de Ação Democrática (''Brazilian Institute for Democratic Action'') or IBAD, founded in May 1959 by
Ivan Hasslocher, was one of two
Brazilian
conservative think tanks (the other was the
IPES
IPES may refer to:
* Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Sociais, a Brazilian think tank of the 1960s
* Inverse photoemission spectroscopy
* Ipos, an Earl and powerful Prince of Hell in demonology
* '' Tabebuia'', Ipê trees
* Lapacho
Lapacho or ...
) established in order to prevent what was seen as the advance of
communism in Brazil. It arose as a reaction to the government of
Juscelino Kubitschek, regarded as
populist and lenient on fighting
inflation, and intensified its action in
João Goulart's administration, with campaigns of
anti-communist
Anti-communism is Political movement, political and Ideology, ideological opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in the Russian Empire, and it reached global dimensions during the Cold War, w ...
content on the radio, television and newspapers. The IBAD had its own
advertising agency, the Incrementadora de Vendas Promotion, and created a political movement called the ''Ação Democrática Popular'' (Popular Democratic Action or ADEP), explicitly geared towards raising money and promoting anti-communist candidates, particularly during the
electoral campaign of 1962 to the
Brazilian legislature.
The overt involvement of IBAD and ADEP in the 1962 campaign, which included the rent for 90 days of the
carioca daily ''
A Noite
''A Noite'' (English: The Night) was a Brazilian newspaper based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was published daily from 18 July 1911 to 27 December 1957 when it stopped publication. Its headquarters, which is located at Praça Mauá in the Cen ...
'' and the publishing by the newspaper ''
O Globo'' of the book ''Assalto ao Parlamento'' (or ''Storming the Parliament'', published in the
United States as ''And Not A Shot Is Fired'')
of the
Czech writer Jan Kozak, led to the creation of a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) in 1963. Although the IBAD had destroyed many of its documents before they could be analyzed by the commission, the remaining were sufficient to demonstrate that the institute was funded by foreign companies, mostly from the United States. Then, President Goulart ordered an investigation by the judiciary that would determine what should be done with the institute. Finally, on December 20, 1963, IBAD and ADEP were dissolved by court order.
See also
*
Covert United States foreign regime change actions
The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was created on September 18, 1947, when Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 into law. A major impetus that has been cited over the years for the creation of the CIA was ...
References
External links
Assaltos ao Parlamento: estudo comparativo dos episódios do Ibad e do Mensalãonbsp;
Anti-communism in Brazil
Think tanks based in Brazil
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