Manuel Pio Correia Júnior

Manuel Pio Corrêa Júnior (born February 8, 1918 in Rio de Janeiro , † December 6, 2013 ) was a Brazilian diplomat and foreign minister .

Life

Manoel Pio Corrêa Júnior was the son of Mercedes Veloso Pio Correia and Manuel Pio Correia . In 1943 he married Teresa Maria de Castilho Graça Aranha, daughter of Adelaide Cardoso de Castilho and Temístocles Graça Aranha, son of Graça Aranha . Her sons are Manuel and Luiz, also a diplomat.

Manuel Pio Corrêa Júnior graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and joined the Itamaraty's foreign service in December 1937 . He was appointed third class consul. In March 1938 he became secretary to the head of public services at the federal level. From September 1938 to November 1939 he studied at the University of Washington . From March 1940 to January 1941 he headed the public services at the federal level. From January to October 1941 he was employed in the office of the Minister of Aviation, Joaquim Pedro Salgado Filho . From October to December 1941 he represented the Ministry of Aviation at Itamaraty. From December 1941 to December 1942 he headed the documentation department of the Aviation Ministry. From December 1942 to March 1943 he was the second class embassy secretary in Caracas . From March 1943 to March 1944 he was the second class legation secretary in Montevideo , where he served as secretary of the Brazilian delegation to the Comissão Consultiva de Emergência para a Defesa Política do Continente , an Inter-American collective security organ that was sponsored by the United States during World War II States had been created acted. He was part of the preparatory committee for the second reporting year of the Brazilian delegation in February 1945 for the founding conference of this body. In May 1945 he represented Brazil on a defense council in Uruguay. From February to March 1947, he took part in the inauguration of the government in Montevideo as second-class legation secretary. From March to December 1947 he was posted to Moscow , from December 1947 to September 1948 to London .

In September 1948 he was promoted to Secretary of the Embassy, ​​First Class, and was a member of the Brazilian delegation to the third session of the United Nations General Assembly in Paris . From March 1950 until he was on the General Staff Estado-Maior das Forças Armadas (EMFA) and attended the Escola Superiorde Guerra (ESG).

In September 1951 he was promoted to the Legation Council and sent to Bonn , where he was a representative in the Brazilian-German commission. From February to May 1952 in the second term of government of Getúlio Vargas he was employed in the government cabinet. From May to December 1952, he taught at the Rio Branco Institute . From December 1952 to February 1957 he was promoted to envoy and assigned to the embassy in Bonn, where he served as chargé d'affaires in 1955 .

In November 1958 he was appointed Ministre plénipotentiaire in Tehran , where he was accredited from January 21, 1958 to September 23, 1959.

In October 1959 he was promoted to first class envoy. In October 1959 he represented the Foreign Minister Horácio Lafer when signing a friendship treaty with the regime of António de Oliveira Salazar in Lisbon . In November 1959 he accompanied Lafer to Buenos Aires and in March 1960 to Montevideo. From May to June 1960 he headed the Brazilian delegation to the Brazilian-Portuguese Commission in Lisbon. In August 1960 he headed the Brazilian delegation to the sixth and seventh deliberations of the American foreign ministers in San José, Costa Rica .

From December 31, 1960 to May 20, 1964 he was Ambassador to Mexico City . In 1961 he obtained a diploma from the Academia Mexicana de Derecho Internacional and was visited by João Goulart in Mexico in April 1962. Philip Agee reported on contacts between Manoel Pio-Corrêa Junior and the representatives of the Central Intelligence Agency in Mexico City. Pio-Corrêa Junior headed the Brazilian delegation in a Brazilian-Mexican body. In October 1963 he negotiated an agreement with representatives of the Mexican government. On March 31, 1964, the Operação Brother Sam , a military coup against João Goulart, took place. In June 1964 he represented the Brazilian government in a commission that examined the situation in Cambodia within the framework of the United Nations .

From September 13, 1964 to January 24, 1966, he was ambassador to Montevideo . Max da Costa Santos was chairman of the Supreme Audit Office in the João Goulart government and the MP Almino Afonso sought refuge in Uruguay from the torture regime that came to power with the Operação Brother Sam in Brazil, like João Goulart . Manoel Pio Corrêa Jun carried out the deportation of people who had found asylum in Uruguay . Philip Agee reported how Manuel Pio Corrêa intervened on December 4, 1964 to obtain the deportation of Costa Santos and Afonso. While the CIA monitored the exiled Leonel de Moura Brizola at every turn , Manoel Pio Corrêa carried out his internment, which he enforced on February 11, 1965.

In 1966 he was general secretary of the Itamaraty and in the meantime acted as acting foreign minister.

From October 2, 1967 to January 26, 1969 he was ambassador to Buenos Aires . He headed the Brazilian delegation at the meeting of the State Coordination Committee on the Río de la Plata .

He headed the Centro de Informações do Exterior (Ciex), a foreign intelligence service for the Brazilian torture regime. From 1969 he held managerial positions in commercial companies, so the financing of the coup in Chile in 1973 could be processed through Brazilian branches of multinational companies . He was head of the telecommunications department at Siemens do Brasil . Until 1983 he headed Icotron SA , a company of the Siemens group that specialized in electronic components. From 1983 to 1994 he managed Ishikawajima do Brasil Estaleiros SA, a shipyard subsidiary of IHI in Rio de Janeiro . At the same time he sat on the supervisory boards of Poligrandes and Brasilit SA of the Brazilian branch of the French ceramic manufacturer Weber Saint-Gobain . He sat on the board of directors of Ciba-Geigy and on the board of directors of the UK General Accidents Insurance. His sinecure also included the posts at Eutectic Indústrias Metalúrgicas Ltda. and the Rio de Janeiro Refrescos SA , a subsidiary of Coca-Cola , he was a member of the international committee of the União de Bancos Brasileiros SA (Unibanco).

In 2012 he was deaf .

Honors

• December 22nd, 1951: Order of Merit Pro Merito Melitensi
• May 1960: Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
• December 24, 1960: Grand Cross of the Pro Merito Melitensi Order of Merit

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Folha de S. Paulo , December 14, 2013, Manoel Pio Corrêa Jr. (1918-2013) - O diplomata, as viagens e os livros, Benedito Tadeu César, Qual obituário de Manoel Pio Correa Júnior merece maior credibilidade?
2. ^ Philip Agee , CIA Intern, Diary 1956–1974, Attica Verlag 1981 p. 331
3. ^ La Jornada , May 9, 2006, La CIA actuó en la Operación Cóndor contra las izquierdas de AL: ex agente
4. ^ Philip Agee , 1981. p. 335
5. ↑ planalto.gov.br
6. ↑ Centro de Informações do Exterior ( Memento of the original of July 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Opera Mundi, 05/26/2012, Comissão da Verdade deve investigar participação de brasileiros no golpe do Chile
8. ↑ Araújo Castro, Personalidades Da Politica Externa Brasileira  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Pp. 86-88  

predecessor	Office	successor
Luiz Pereira Ferreira de Faro Junior	Brazilian Chargé d'Affaires in Bonn 1955	Abelardo Bretanha Bueno do Prado
Orlando Pimentel de Bittencourt Leal	Brazilian envoy in Tehran 1958-1959	Henrique Augusto de Araújo Mesquista
Jorge de Oliveira Maia	Brazilian ambassador to Mexico City 1960–1964	Octávio Luiz de Berenguer César
Júlio Agostinho de Oliveira	Brazilian ambassador to Montevideo 1964–1966	Alarico de Silveira Junior
Carlos dos Santos Veras	Brazilian ambassador to Buenos Aires 1967–1969	Lyle Amaury Tarisse da Fontoura
Juracy Magalhães	Brazilian Foreign Minister November 25 - December 1, 1966	Juracy Magalhães