Dagger, but No Cloak: Brazil’s Top Spy Exposes C.I.A. Officer<br />Castro Neves said that Brazil is not cut out for great power machinations,<br />Brazil’s political establishment was captivated on Monday by the apparently casual revelation of the identity of a Central Intelligence<br />Agency official in the capital, Brasília, by the office of Gen. Sérgio Westphalen Etchegoyen, the country’s top intelligence official.<br />General Etchegoyen’s staff mentioned the official by name<br />and described the official’s position as the C.I.A.’s "chief" in Brasília in a publicly available agenda of the spymaster’s meetings on June 9.<br />But General Etchegoyen’s office said in a statement<br />that cabinet-level officials are required to disclose their schedules under Brazil’s freedom of information law, enacted in 2011.<br />Mr. Castro Neves said that I decided to actually read the whole thing and noticed it,<br />By SIMON ROMERO and DOM PHILLIPSJUNE 20, 2017<br />RIO DE JANEIRO — Intelligence officers who think they might like to be posted in Brazil take<br />note: A simple meeting with the country’s spying hierarchy can get your cover blown.
