PORTUGUESE SUPERIOR COUNCIL OF THE ARMED FORCES MOVEMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78S01932A000100110016-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: November 16, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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ITEM N0: . 1 DATE: .'16 NOVEMBER 1974
SU1J[::CT: PORTUGUESE SUPERIOR COUNCIL OF THE ARMED FORCES
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THE US EMBASSY IN LISBON REPORTS THAT THE SUPERIOR
COUNCIL OF THE ARMED FORCES MOVEMENT APPEARS TO BE PLAYING
A MAJOR ROLE IN THE CURRENT CRISIS WITHIN THE PORTUGUESE
MILITARY. THE COUNCIL IS ESSENTIALLY A GROUP OF
CONSERVATIVE-TO-MODERATE MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT LEADERS
TRYING TO ACT AS A BRAKE ON THE YOUNGER, MORE-RADICAL MINDED
OFFICERS IN THE ARMED FORCES MOVEMENT
ASIDE FROM VAGUE PRESS DESCRIPTIONS, THE FUNCTION OF
SUPERIOR COUNCIL HAS NEVER BEEN FULLY EXPLAINED TO THE GENERAL
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PUBLIC. ITM IS KNOWN, HOWEVER, THAT PRESIDENT COSTA GOMES
HEADS IT. ITS MEMBERSHIP INCLUDES SEVEN MEMBERS OF THE JUNTA,
SEVEN MEMBERS OF THE RADICAL.--DOMINATED COORDINATING COMMITTEE,
AND THE MILITARY COMMANDER FOR LISBON. GOVE1NMENT
REPRESENTATIVES INCLUDE PRIME MINISTER GONCALVES AND FOUR
MEMBERS OF HIS CABINET.
PRESIDENT GONGS MAY BE USING THE COUNCIL TO GAIN GREATER
CONTROL OVER THE MILITARY, ESPECIALLY THE COORDINATING
CO111f L I?TEE~ THE COUNCIL HAS, IN FACT, RECENTLY RECOMMENDED
THAT THE COORDINATING COMMITTEE BE ABOLISHED. THE COUNCIL
ALSO ALLOWS THE PRES:f:DENT TO BRING MEMBERS OF THE
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT INTO THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS OF
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