The SNI and the production of counter-information to parana and santa catarina’s press about Marumbi and Green Belly Operations (1975-76)

Abstract

This paper analyses the counter-information production and propagation process by the unpublished archives from the National Information Service (SNI) agency of Curitiba relative to Marumbi (PR) and Green Belly (SC) Operations that hunted down political activists and PCB supporters during the years of 1975 and 1976. To base the analyses and comprehension of the documental research, the files were intentionally selected from the SNI archive of Parana and Santa Catarina, that are in a systematization process. As results, it was identified two distinctive fronts of counter-information production that were distribuited for mass media propagation: 1°) official notes manufectured by the repression agents; 2°) messages imputed to the victims that regretted their subversion actions. Nevertheless, it was identified on both fronts the ideological elements of anticommunism that characterizes the National Security doctrine.