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### Viewing cable 06BRASILIA1966, BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON

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06BRASILIA1966 | 2006-09-18 14:21 | 2011-07-11 00:00 | SECRET | Embassy Brasilia

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    S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 03 BRASILIA 001966

    SIPDIS

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/25/2016
    TAGS: PREL BR
    SUBJECT: BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON
    INSTITUTIONAL SECURITY CHIEF

    Classified By: POLITICAL COUNSELOR DENNIS HEARNE. REASONS: 1.4 (B)(D).

     ¶1.  (S/NF) Summary.  On 14 September, Ambassador
    (accompanied by PolCouns and DATT) made a courtesy call on
    General Jorge Armando Felix, Minister for Institutional
    Security in the Brazilian Presidency. Felix's office oversees
    both national intelligence and narcotics prevention efforts
    nationwide, and is also an interagency crisis management
    center for the Brazilian Government (GOB).  Felix was
    accompanied by his deputy, General Wellington; Marcio
    Buzanelli, Director of Brazil's National Intelligence Agency
    (ABIN); and General Paulo Uchoa, Director of Brazil's
    Counter-Drug Secretariat (SENAD).  The frank and broad
    discussion covered bilateral cooperation against terrorism
    and narcotrafficking, and USG concerns about delays in
    security preparations for the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio.
     Ambassador also raised the issue of bilateral cooperation in
    intelligence sharing on regional issues.  End summary.

    INSTITUTIONAL SECURITY CABINET
    ------------------------------

    ¶2. (SBU) Felix shared with Ambassador a slide presentation
    outling the responsibilities of the Presidency's
    Institutional Security Office (Portuguese acronym GSI),
    stressing that the GSI has primarily "coordination" vice
    "executive" authorities.  Felix explained that his office --
    in addition to providing direct security support to the
    President, serving on the National Defense Council, and
    coordinating interagency crisis management in the GOB -- is
    responsible for overseeing the work of the Brazilian
    Intelligence Agency (ABIN) and is the seat of the President's
    National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD).  Felix praised the
    cooperation of Embassy agencies, including the Narcotics
    Affairs Section (NAS), with his office and emphasized a
    desire to intensify cooperation whenever possible.  In
    response to questions by Ambassador, Felix further clarified
    that ABIN is primarily focused on intelligence issues and
    security within Brazil, and SENAD is focused on prevention
    and treatment of drug usage, vice repression and enforcement,
    which are under the jurisdiction of the Federal Police.

    CT ISSUES
    ---------

    ¶3. (C) Ambassador reviewed USG concerns about possible
    terrorist financing activities in the tri-border area, and
    solicited Felix's views on potential threats.  He also asked
    Felix about the structure of decision-making and executive
    responsibility on CT issues within the GOB, and raised the
    possibility of high-level visits by senior U.S. intelligence
    officials for meetings with Brazilian counterparts.  On
    operational issues, Ambassador praised the relationship
    between Brazilian intelligence and security officials and the
    Embassy, but expressed concern about the state of security
    preparations for the Pan-American games in Brazil in 2007.
    He also asked whether the GSI and ABIN have monitored persons
    coming to Brazil in evacuations from the recent fighting in
    southern Lebanon.

    ¶4. (C) On the tri-border question, Felix said that the area
    is a focus of concern for Brazil in several respects,
    including narcotrafficking, arms smuggling, piracy and
    falisfication of myriad products, as well as money laundering
    and terrorist financing.  The GOB's police and intelligence
    services have an extensive presence in the region, and also
    have liaison relations with Argentine, Paraguayan and other
    national intelligence services, including U.S. agencies.  The
    GOB pursues CT investigations in the TBA and elsewhere
    rigorously, he said, but is mindful of not "stigmatizing" the
    Muslim community in the region, or prejudicing the area's

    BRASILIA 00001966  002 OF 003

    image as a tourist destination.  Brazil also has to be
    "sensitive" to the differences -- in economic development
    levels, in police capacity -- that exist among the three TBA
    "neighbors" and work in a "gradual" fashion to build
    confidence and lay groundwork for enhanced security
    cooperation between the three nations.

    ¶5. (C) With regard to the GOB's bureaucratic architecture for
    managing CT issues, Felix told Ambassador that the GSI had
    recently sent to President Lula da Silva a proposal for new
    legislation that would organize the GOB's CT efforts into a
    more centralized structure under the supervision of Felix.
    If Lula approves the proposal, it will be forwarded to
    Brazil's congress as a "projeto de lei" (legislative
    proposal) for debate.  Felix, who traveled to the U.S. last
    year for consultations with USG agencies on development of
    interagency CT coordination, welcomed the Ambassador's
    proposal for high-level visits, and said he and the ABIN
    director would be the GOB interlocutors for such meetings.
    He directed his staff to prepare a draft agenda of potential
    issues of mutual concern to be addressed in the meetings, and
    undertook to provide the agenda to the Embassy.

    6.(C) Noting the Ambassador's concern that security
    preparations for the Pan Am Games appear to be moving slowly,
    Felix nonetheless demurred on a substantive reply, saying
    only that the National Secrariat for Public Security has the
    lead within the GOB for security for the games.  Felix
    further implied he would not welcome taking on the task.
    (Comment:  Notwithstanding Felix's comments, there is
    widespread frustration within the GOB and among international
    missions and service providers with the work being done by
    the Public Security Secretariat, and Mission elements are
    working informally on the issue with working-level
    counterparts in the GSI, who indicate they expect the
    security coordination mission for the games will be
    transferred formally to GSI in the near future. End comment.)

    ¶7. (S/NF) ABIN Director Buzanelli, responding to Ambassador's
    question about movements of persons into Brazil from Lebanon
    in the wake of recent fighting there, said his agency has
    been carefully checking the names and backgrounds of
    Brazilian passport holders (and relatives) evacuated from
    Lebanon, and is coordinating this effort with other
    intelligence services, including those of the USG. But the
    work has been difficult and time-consuming, he said, as
    almost 3,000 Brazilians were evacuated from Lebanon, though
    some are now returning there with the ceasefire in place.
    Felix added that the GOB has been highly concerned about the
    possibility of terrorist elements or combatants slipping into
    Brazil with other evacuees, and remains attentive.  Felix
    noted that Brazil's population of over 7 million persons of
    Lebanese descent is, by far, made up mostly of Maronite and
    Orthodox Christians, who immigrated before the Lebanese civil
    war in the 1970s.  During and following the war, Muslims
    immigrated to Brazil, settling mainly in the tri-border area
    and Sao Paulo.  The predominent population of settled,
    prosperous non-Muslim Lebanese has "helped to maintain
    balance" and limit radicalization of the Lebanese population
    in Brazil, despite the deep emotional resonance events in
    Lebanon and the Middle East have in Brazil's middle eastern
    community, according to Felix.

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    ¶8. (C) Ambassador recalled his recent meeting with Justice
    Minister Thomas Bastos, in which a possible visit by the U.S.
    Attorney General, DEA Administrator, and INL A/S were
    discussed, and in which Ambassador offered USG assistance in

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    addressing the recent violent attacks in Sao Paulo by the PCC
    organized crime group.  He noted conversations with Sao Paulo
    Governor Claudio Lembo and Rio Mayor Cesar Maia in which both
    had expressed high concern about cocaine inundating their
    cities.  He further recounted his meeting with Federal Police
    Director Paulo Lacerda, noting Lacerda's concern about the
    illicit flow of both narcotics and heavy-caliber weapons
    across Brazil's immense frontiers.  Lacerda had observed that
    he had only 7,000 Federal Police agents, and that the
    Brazilian Army has constitutional authority to purse public
    order/law enforcement missions within 150 kilometers of
    national borders.  Ambassador asked for Felix's perspectives
    on these concerns.

    ¶9. (C) Felix said his office would welcome visits by the U.S.
    Attorney General, DEA Administrator, and INL A/S and
    expressed gratitude for offers of assistance to deal with the
    PCC.  Observing that Brazilian authorities are becoming
    progressively better at "following the money trail," Felix
    said Brazilian police are now increasingly using financial
    investigation tactics against organized crime, including the
    PCC and other narcotics and gun smugglers.  He said there is
    proposed legislation to expand the Federal Police to more
    than 14,000 agents, but that the Brazilian military continues
    to be reluctant to engage in border operations against
    narcotics smuggling, fearing the potential for corruption
    among the troops -- a troubling trend seen in neighboring
    countries, Felix added.

    ¶10. (C) Brazil's battle against narcotrafficking has been "a
    cycle of success-failure," and he said the classic example of
    this is seen with Bolivia.  Brazilian law enforcement has
    enjoyed considerable success in controlling precursor
    chemcials and materials flowing from Brazil into Bolivia for
    the processing of coca into refined cocaine products.  As a
    result, Bolivia's cocaine has degraded to a point that it
    attracts little interest in the U.S. and European markets.
    But an unintended consquence is now evident as low-quality
    Bolivian cocaine floods Brazilian cities: Brazil is now
    Bolivia's main drug market.

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    ¶11. (S/NF) Ambassador inquired whether the GSI and ABIN would
    be interested in colloborating with U.S. counterparts in
    sharing intelligence on developments in the region, including
    in Venezuela.  Felix was careful in his reply, but said such
    cooperation could be "useful," and said, with no elaboration,
    that "Paraguay could be of special interest."  Ambassador
    pressed further on the question of Venezuela, to which Felix
    quietly replied, "Why not?"

    ¶12. (C) Comment. Felix appears willing to cooperate with USG
    authorities, and is clearly concerned with improving and
    streamling the GOB's capacity for dealing with
    counter-terrorism priorities.  We believe it would be
    worthwhile to involve his office more extensively in
    collobrative efforts on CT, counter-narcotics and organized
    crime, and foresee, in particular, the possible necessity of
    making the GSI a focal point for our efforts to work with
    Brazil on security preparation for the Pan Am Games.

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