Horan, Robert. "U.S.S. Forrestal (CVN-72)". Disabled American Veterans Florida Chapter #70. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
"Brazil: The Military Republic, 1964–85, Library of Congress Country Studies" [...] "The role of the United States in these events was complex and at times contradictory. An anti-Goulart press campaign was conducted throughout 1963, and in 1964 the Johnson administration gave moral support to the campaign. Ambassador Lincoln Gordon later admitted that the embassy had given money to anti-Goulart candidates in the 1962 municipal elections and had encouraged the plotters; that many extra United States military and intelligence personnel were operating in Brazil; and that four United States Navy oil tankers and the carrier Forrestal, in an operation code-named Brother Sam, had stood off the coast in case of need during the 1964 coup. Washington immediately recognized the new government in 1964 and joined the chorus chanting that the coup d'état of the "democratic forces" had staved off the hand of international communism. In retrospect, it appears that the only foreign hand involved was Washington's, although the United States was not the principal actor in these events. Indeed, the hard-liners in the Brazilian military pressured Costa e Silva into promulgating the Fifth Institutional Act on 13 December 1968. This act gave the president dictatorial powers, dissolved Congress and state legislatures, suspended the constitution, and imposed censorship."
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"Pensacola's Flattops". National Naval Aviation Museum. 9 July 2014. Archived from the original on 5 September 2020. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
Horan, Robert. "U.S.S. Forrestal (CVN-72)". Disabled American Veterans Florida Chapter #70. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
"Pensacola's Flattops". National Naval Aviation Museum. 9 July 2014. Archived from the original on 5 September 2020. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
