"São Paulo, the world's fastest growing city." "Do you know who Henning Boilesen was?" "No, I don't." "Do you know who Henning Boilesen was?" "No." " Never heard of him?" " No." "I don't know why this street was named after him." "I think he was an engineer or something." "When they named this street they never told us who he was, never explained it, we just don't know." "It's a German name, but I don't know who he was." "I know he's German." " I don't know him." " Never heard of him?" "No." "Thanks." "Yes." "He was a local administrator." " Local?" " Yes, local." "What else do you know about him?" "That's all I know." "It's written on the street sign..." "Decree nº 10.437, 3 April 1973." "Item 2.0 - Henning Boilesen Street" "The street is currently known as C street." "The street sign will read:" "Business Administrator, 1916, 1971." "CITIZEN BOILESEN" "COPENHAGEN, DENMARK" "You will now meet our Dane." "He's a naturalized Brazilian who's been there for how long, Boilesen?" "Thirty years." "Thirty years in Brazil." "He's a great Brazilian industrialist." "Boilesen is the boss of the Ultragaz group, right?" "Ultragaz." "Curriculum Vitae and Personal Data" "Name:" "Henning Albert Boilesen." "Date of Birth: 14 February 1916." "Copenhagen, Denmark." "The hardships he endured as a child were the reason for his strong determination to succeed in life." "As a boxer, he took good care of his health." "He was a reasonable left wing football player by Danish standards." "He was frequently his class top student." "I remember him as a child, when we had to buy a new coat." "Every time he got a new one he came home and said:" ""Mother, I met someone who needed a coat more than I do so I gave it to him"." "That was Henning." "He was such a good boy." "Schooling:" "Business Administration and Accounting," "Trade, Commerce and Industry Institute," "Copenhagen, Denmark." "My grandfather was the Danish consul in Brazil." "He sent his two oldest daughters to Denmark." "One of them started dating my father." "The other one dated my father's brother." "The youngest one was told to return." "She brought my father along." "They were already married." "The 22 year old arrived in Rio by ship, with 500.000 réis in each pocket." "On a bus tour around the famous city, half his money was stolen." "He left Rio and moved to São Paulo." "Identification cards, please!" "What have you got in that bag?" "There was consensus in our organization as well as in MRT." "The comrades agreed that we should retaliate, that he should be punished and killed." "It was high time for them to pay too." "Not only the anonymous little soldiers that were forced to engage us." "They didn't know why they were being shot and killed." "Meanwhile the big ones, the big shots, continued attending parties, featured in newspapers gossip columns, and continued killing our comrades." "In São Paulo, people go to clubs in the evening to dance the samba with their friends." "He liked Brazil, especially the ethnic mix." "He enjoyed the Brazilian disorder." "It was part of his soul, he liked it." "This is Boilesen's first paradox." "He wasn't properly a Dane." "He blended very well with the Brazilian spirit." "Boilesen was extraordinarily friendly." "He seemed Brazilian, he was Brazilian." "He appeared to be a strong and determined person." "People knew he had been a boxer." "He gave the impression of being a tough, serious, macho guy." "Henning Albert Boilesen always caused a good impression." "He was athletic and resembled actor Kirk Douglas." "He was very handsome and clever." "He was an idealist, both regarding his work and political opinions." "Boilesen was a nice, pleasant, friendly, talkative, outgoing and cute guy." "An entrepreneur who had exchanged Denmark for Brazil, a man who created a center integrating companies and schools, who engaged in social actions benefiting children and adolescents, a man who loved Brazil, football, caipirinhas, and listened to Chico Buarque de Holanda's music." "He was a good guy and we had similar ideas, he thought in the same way we did;" "when this happens there is always a connection." "He had magnetism and charisma." "When he walked into a room he attracted everyone's attention." "People stopped whatever they were doing to listen to him." "He had a natural leadership over people." "I remember Boilesen as an idealist, a pure and upright man." "He was a strong, tough man who didn't make friends easily but was very well respected." "Professional Career:" "1942/1950 Accounting Director Firestone." "1951/1952 Sales and Administration Director DANTOP." "1952 up to present UL TRAGAZ." "At Ultra Group he began working in accounting then did administrative work until he became the company's president." "For Henning most important was winning Peri Igel's fraternal friendship to whom he felt as close as a sibling." "He said:" "If he tells me to jump off a cliff I'll do it." "When we began talking about Peri Igel, we didn't really know if it was him." "The information we had was that the Ultra group was financing Oban." "Half Brazil's population consumes bottled gas!" "50 million people whose homes receive bottled gas derived from oil." "It's not very well know that Ultragaz is both pioneer and market leader." "The company was doing quite well." "In 1965, in São Paulo alone, 32 thousand containers were delivered each and every day." "Can you imagine what a big business that was?" "The Ultra group controls about 20 companies." "It has interests in bottled gas, electric and electronic appliances." " That will be Ultralar." " Yes, Ultralar." "You see here Ultragaz chairman, my friend Henning Boilesen." "In the Ultra Group he's the one in charge of presiding Ultragaz." "The first clue we had of Boilesen wasn't really about him but about Utragaz." "We began noticing reports from comrades who were arrested and from those who managed to escape sieges that whenever repression organs staged operations against us, there were always Ultragaz trucks parked near by." "We felt that these trucks could be taking part in the operations." "He praised the racial mix here and bragged about it." "I saw him several times with mulatto women, he liked them very much." "This wasn't a secret." "It was almost official." "People said that Henning had two households." "He had a wife, in her fifties, and various children." "But Henning formed another family with a younger wife." "Nevertheless he continued providing financial support to his ex wife and visited her regularly." "He never really abandoned his family." "Yes, he had a second port." "I like to call it port as it has charm without excluding the official first port from which he never parted." "But he did meet another woman and had another child with her." "Football is the Paulista's favorite game." "A magnificent stadium like Pacaembu fits 80.000 enthusiastic fans during championship games." "If Palmeiras, the team he supported, was losing a match he would go down to the stand-only area, jumping the iron fence that separated fans." "He got into fights with everyone." "As soon as he got down there, you saw a great melee." "If Palmeiras lost the match you would surely find him in Barra Funda." "You know what I mean by Barra Funda." "The police station there." "He was often arrested in Pacaembu stadium fighting football fans." "STRIKES STOP SHIPS AT GUANABARA BAY" "GOULART ASSURES THAT HE DOESN'T WANT TO BE A DICTATOR" "President João Goulart, who strongly defends fundamental socio-economic reforms, especially land reform, attends a huge popular assembly and explains his government's proposals." "João Goulart was a threat because he was lenient." "That was the prevailing view among the business community." "It was said that he was creating a left-wing union-based government." "There was no way Goulart could implement such a thing." "He wasn't even able to cling to power." "But the perception then was that Brazil was in imminent risk of becoming a communist country." "How was the world then?" "There were two ideological hemispheres." "You had to choose between them, you could not compromise." "You either belonged to one or the other." "This choice had profound consequences for the country." "We created a businessmen group that came together as a response to the implementation of Mr. Joao Goulart's Socialist Republic." "Where will this crisis lead us to?" "When will these administration outrages cease?" "When will this disorder end?" "Where will the omission of the so-called elite take us to?" "There's not much time left." "Brazil can't wait any longer." "It was how people thought in the companies." "The business entrepreneur thought that way." "They feared a catastrophe, in other words, a communist regime or whatever name you want to call it." "This is when I set up the initial contacts between civilians and the military." "There were journalists and entrepreneurs in the cause..." "Several groups met to discuss these issues." "I myself participated in meetings here in São Paulo." "The military dictatorship wasn't exclusively a military phenomenon, this we must emphasize." "As the coup d'etat wasn't only military but civilian-military and fully supported by the business community." "The business leaders defended their own economic interests which were in danger if Brazil 'cubanized'." "They felt that their businesses were threatened." "So, they decided to take action." "And some like Boilesen got deeply involved with it." "He really didn't like communism." "His definition of what a communist was went like this:" "As a young man, he's a show off." "As an adult, he's perfect." "As an older man, he's an idiot." "He thought that Brazil should be free of communists." "He got upset when he saw any communists, he really hated them." "He was very much part of that way of thinking and truly believed that a catastrophe was about to take place." "For him it was perfectly legitimate to stock up weapons and use them to defend oneself." "In the early hours of the coup, we couldn't leave my office." "We all remained there, including Boilesen." "Most of us were heavily armed." "I remember vividly that on this occasion" "Boilesen had a machine gun, a very modern weapon at that time." "The Armed Forces were urged to carry out the mission that the country's historic moment forced upon them:" "Restoring order and ridding the nation of the rotten red rags that threatened to strangle it." "BRAZIL ANNOUNCES THAT IT HAS A NEW PRESIDENT" "Ultragaz isn't only connected to Petrobras by gas pipelines." "Everything is connected." "Ultragaz consumes gas produced by Petrobras." "The companies are also linked by petrochemicals." "Ultragaz is Petrobras'partner in União petrochemicals," "Oxiteno and will consume urea produced by Petrobras in Bahia." "Petrobras had the monopoly." "Ultragaz bought the gas abroad, transported it to Brazil and sold it for cash to Petrobras." "Petrobras stored this gas, and Ultragaz bought it back and paid 30 days later." "Next day the gas was distributed in São Paulo and sold cash." "You had a negative turnover financed by Petrobras which for us was an exceptional bank." "Thanks to Petrobras, Brazil has entered the petrochemical era." "The producers of plastics, textiles, paints, pesticides and fertilizers will benefit." "There will be a 50 percent cut in costs of these products." "He often visited Operação Bandeirante, inspected prisoners, and was present at torture sessions." "His skyrocketing career in the Ultra Group led him to the position of chairman of the company and he used his power to perform good deeds." "He was a director of FIESP and the Commercial Association." "He was ajoyful person who wanted to do good things for his company and his employees." "When he got involved in an important cause he received support from other entrepreneurs, other personalities." "Like the Schools and Business Integration Center." "Boilesen created the Schools and Business Integration Center which still exist." "Last night, Mr. Henning Albert Boilesen was nominated" "'Public Relations Man of 1964'." "He built a skyrocketing and brilliant career." "It was all due to him." "He came from Denmark empty-handed, rapidly rose to the top and became the most powerful Dane in Brazil." "Dear Adam." "I'm very happy to inform you that on the 17th of this month, the King decided to give Henning Boilesen the 'the Order of Dannebrog'," "Denmark's highest official commend." "He received the prize from King Frederik IX for his accomplishments as an entrepreneur, and his participation in the World Bank, but nobody mentioned the rumors surrounding him at that time." "Since 64, a more radical wing of the military considered that the main mission of the so called revolution was to bring about a thorough clean up of Brazil." "It meant eliminating communists, subversives etc." "Yesterday, today and forever my country-continent, I love you so much" "I keep going forward, happy andjoyful in this island of peace no one can stop this nation love it or leave it, my bright land it's a miracle, divine creation majestic inspiration, because God is Brazilian" "forward, my Brazil, forward" "I love you and being with you makes me happy forever, my Brazil, forever" "I never tire praising my country" "First there were the street demonstrations, protests." "These huge protests and political turbulence led to the enactment of the Institutional Act Number 5 (AI 5)." "When the Institutional Act Number 5 became a decree, on 13 December 1968, the regime became enormously empowered." "Citizens' rights ceased to exist." "NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL MEETS" "His Excellency the President, after consulting with members of the National Security Council, decided to enact an institutional act in order to fully preserve the ideals of the March 1964 revolution." "ACT 5 ' TO KEEP REVOLUTION GOING" "It was a fascist legislation, the Al-5." "Costa e Silva imposed it on Castelo Branco." "They called it 'the coup within the coup'." "Thus, in the shadows of Al-5, repression was unleashed." "The Al- 5 was probably created for that very reason:" "So that they were free to act violently." "It was a tragedy that lasted a very long time and it caused great harm to Brazil." "Forward, my Brazil, forward" "I love you and with you I am happier forever, my Brazil, for ever" "I never tire praising my country" "From this point on it really started." "Until then, people were part of a passive resistance;" "there were rallies, speeches, marches, that sort of thing." "After the Institutional Act Number 5, many went underground and the armed conflict truly began." "Shortly after the Al-5, in April 69, we held a political conference and decided to organize ourselves in order to join the armed struggle." "We shared a view held at that time that fighting a revolutionary war was the only way to take action against the military dictatorship." "It's a robbery!" "Quickly, shut up!" "Be quiet!" "Everybody to the bathroom!" "Quickly!" "REVOLUTION" "The state's police forces were unable to deal with the sudden increase in the number of bank robberies and other criminal activities of the so called urban guerrillas." "President Marshall Costa e Silva, accompanied by civil and military authorities, arrived at Rosario, Rio Grande do Sul, to attend important military maneuvers performed by the Army's Third Division." "The soldiers demonstrated their skills using ultramodern weapons." "Officers showed their capacity in handling any type of conflict, including guerrilla warfare." "It was a type of war for which we were not prepared." "The army isn't trained to fight an internal enemy, it isn't prepared for this." "During the first phase of the armed struggle, left wing guerrillas in Brazil benefited" "from the relative disorganization of the political police." "The political police, as the Brazilian leftist organizations, was used to overt political struggles based on democratic principles." "It was like this during the 20 years until the 64 coup." "The repressive organs were unable to identify and combat vanguard clandestine organizations that adopted guerrilla warfare." "The country can be certain that its armed forces are able to protect its citizens against their enemies, maintaining democracy, liberty and justice." "After Chandler's murder the Americans thought that new and different measures should be adopted in order to cope with the situation in Brazil." "I guess that's how Oban began." "Some leftists thought that Chandler was an American spy and decided to eliminate him." "The terrible killing of American captain Charles Chandler right in front of his wife and 9 year old son had a huge negative impact on the armed forces." "In my opinion the armed forces, the army particularly, felt that they were on the defensive against terrorists'actions which had become much more violent." "Those first bank robberies, the first kidnapping;" "these were things we had never thought we'd have to face." "Imagine the army having to confront something like that." "Our organization was responsible for several armed actions." "We participated, together with ALN, in kidnapping the American ambassador." "Kidnapping the American ambassador led us and the extreme right to think that we were stronger than we actually were." "The terrorists demand 70 prisoners in exchange of the Swiss ambassador." "It seems that former army captain Carlos Lamarca commanded this action." "It's an insult to the Brazilian army." "The enemy acts within our own country and the communist threat is being created by Brazilians themselves." "A new military strategy had to be developed to fight the internal enemy." "The army's high command decided to create a central repressive para-military apparatus." "Oban was created for military needs." "They needed an organization that could fight leftists hiding among civilians." "I was one of the founders." "The starting point of Oban was a military unit on Manoel da Nobrega Street." "The initial activities were centralized at the Infantry Unit." "It was there that the fight against terrorism began." "The head of Operação Bandeirante, was a major who currently is a general, Brilhante Ustra." "General Jose Canavarro Pereira was in charge of Sao Paulo's security." "He decided to unite the efforts of the Armed Forces," "Federal Police, and the Military and Civil Police of São Paulo, concentrating the actions against terrorism under the army's command and responsibility." "For this purpose, and with the approval and material support from Sao Paulo's State governor, Abreu Sodré, on 27 June 1969," "Operação Bandeirante also known as Oban." "Abreu Sodre's government transformed the police station on Tutoia Street into a center of torture, interrogation, detention, and struggle against the insurgents who opposed the military dictatorship." "Operação Bandeirante began in São Paulo." "That was, for sure, the most radical and cruel repressive operation during the entire military regime in Brazil." "São Paulo, the greatest industrial center of Latin America..." "São Paulo was also the center of resistance." "Imagine the panic of São Paulo's financial system." "The number of bank robberies greatly increased." "It wasn'tjust by chance that Oban started there." "Where was there a military problem and violent strikes?" "And the changes in the church?" "It all took place in the same place." "Evidently this was where the main effort had to be undertaken." "It was the most criminal, the bloodiest repression apparatus." "It put together people from the army, and the Sao Paulo police, Ernesto." "They could arrest, torture and kill whoever they wanted." "What's this?" "What's this?" "You'll find out soon enough." "Get in here quickly." "Let's get in, damn it!" "It's none of your business!" "Out, out!" "The army had to discover the planners, the bank robbers, and the structure of the armed militant organizations." "They decided that the best policemen available were cops from the 'Robberies Squad'." "Some civil and military policemen were selected to be part of the Operação Bandeirante." "There was a group of policemen in the civil police headed by Fleury who eliminated offenders or non offenders." "The only one who got in and out, who was part of the Oban, DOPS and everything else, was my colleague, Sergio Paranhos Fleury." "Boilesen was always surrounded by police and military personalities, people who were involved in torture and death squads." "Among them Sergio Fleury, Boilesen's close friend." "My father was Fleury's friend." "But that doesn't mean that he took part in the same type of things." "Take your clothes off!" "Take your clothes off, terrorist son of a bitch!" "At that point" "Fleury was clearly involved in political repression." "The death squad's ideology was the elimination of offenders." "Fleury brought this concept to Operação Bandeirante." "You're full of shit, terrorist!" "Speak damit!" "I'm loosing my patience!" "He was a monster." "He was always on drugs;" "you could feel there was something really evil about him." "It turned him on, you know?" "Church traitor." "Traitor of Brazil." "Skillfully, the military cultivated what I'd call a certain panic among the business community." "The businessmen panicked and got involved in illegal issues." "Oban was a clandestine organization." "If the armed left succeeds in their plans you entrepreneurs are lost." "It's both the military's duty and yours, businessmen, to put an end in this problem." "We need your help." "We've got the strength and fighting expertise." "But we haven't got resources." "The military command, mainly the II Army Division, decided that it was time to turn to the private sector, mainly the foreign companies, and make them understand that the insurgency could have an impact on them too," "in case the terrorist forces triumphed." "The idea was: 'lt's our turn today and tomorrow may be yours." "We need your support to be able accomplish our missions efficiently." "This support was financial." "The armed forces planned the operations:" "We need this and that." "We've got this but not that." "Who can get it for us?" "Vidigal can do it because he's got contacts out there." "It was easier for him to deal with other civilians than for us, military officers, to deal with 10, 20, 30 civilians." "Two or three trusted civilians, respectable, big shots, made connections with other civilians." "Many people participated and cooperated." "But one or two acted as a sort of bridge between us and other civilians." "They also attested that the money given wasn't pocketed." "Are you telling me that private companies paid the military and the police to torture and kill?" "I don't do this because I want to." "This what?" "Give money to Garcia." "Money, what for?" "To fight subversion." "Every Thursday, a luncheon took place for the business community." "Minister Delfim Neto always came along." "The Economy Minister brought together entrepreneurs in São Paulo to ask them for money to fight subversion." "Delfim answered questions." "Dr. Gastao passed the hat and said:" "Ok, now we're going to collaborate with Oban." "There are many influential people who contribute;" "I can't stay out." "Why?" "Because I will lose access to credit and to government bids." "The tray was circulated and on it checks were placed." "The businessman passed the check on to Boilesen." "He looked at it, gave it back and said 'write out another one, twice the sum'." "Operação Bandeirante had a precarious structure." "There was a director plus two subordinates, myself and another sergeant." "We coordinated everything, all the teams." "Then when DOl-Codi was set up, things began to get better organized." "We created different sections dealing with information, analysis and so on." "We were now part of a proper military structure and we finally had a budget." "Thomas, are you telling me that your company supported" " these animals financially?" " It could be." " How did you?" " How did you what, Ernesto?" "Do you have any idea what was at stake?" "Are you so naive as to believe that companies such as ours would put at risk several million dollars of investment, without taking action?" "Their support was important to us." "Not only for information, for creating networks." "We wanted their participation." "It meant that civilians were mobilized too." "You don't win any war all by yourself, alone." "This was politically important for the regime because the private sector, the companies, demonstrated solidarity with the regime." "It was symbolic as it demonstrated the business involvement with the military." "It wasn't simply about money." "The government had plenty of money." "It was political support sealed with the deal." "A list containing the names of the largest contributors was talked about." "If I'm not mistaken Ultragaz appeared as no. 1 company." "This is a list of companies that financed torture, and it was found with the group who killed Boilesen." "The documents are shown;" "Thomas isn't interested in reading them." "Ernesto picks a document to examine it." "Several multinational companies, including the Ultra Group," "Ford, and General Motors among others, financed Operação Bandeirante, a repression apparatus that led to the creation of DOl-Codi." "The Americans never financed anything." "They considered that we did a good thing." "For them any different type of regime, like Cuba's, was not." "They acted mainly as advisers." "They always had." "I personally had much contact with the CIA." "I was a 'persona grata' to the CIA." "And whoever wanted to cooperate did it." "Boilesen, for example, was one of the first ones to be available." "The one who volunteered to be liaison with the private sector was Boilesen." "During the 3 years and 4 months I was DOl-Codi's commander," "I didn't receive any donation from Boilesen nor from other businessman." "It doesn't mean that all businessmen were involved." "But some were directly involved, others indirectly." "Boilesen was directly involved." "Boilesen used Mafia-like methods to obtain financial contributions from the businessmen to increase Oban's repression budget." "But at least two refused to cooperate:" "Antonio Ermirio de Moraes, and José Mindlin." "And he told me 'I'm representing Oban, which is getting ready to save society from the dangers of leftist turmoil." "Are you willing to collaborate with funds in order to equip Oban with expensive technology?" "Now we had two bits of information." "One:" "Ultragaz is collaborating, putting their trucks in operations against our comrades;" "two:" "Ultragaz is participating in funding Oban." "So, little by little a pattern is becoming clear." "From FIESP (lndustrial Federation of Sao Paulo), almost all its members collaborated with Oban." "The same goes for vehicle manufacturers." "Among the heavy industries too." "Boilesen was indeed a key person in the funding set-up but he wasn't the only one." "There were others just as important, like bankers." "I mean bank owners." "Undoubtedly Boilesen's participation was municipal rather than national." "Bradesco Bank owner, Amador Aguiar's inconspicuous, reserved participation was on a national level." "He was allowed to influence Brazil's destiny much more than Boilesen." "The Folha de São Paulo newspaper delivery vans were used in Oban's operations." "Undercover Oban agents hid on Folha's trucks during investigations, arrests and search operations." "New president General Medici's speech filled Brazilians with enthusiastic hope when he said:" "'As a man of the law," "I feel that democracy is a national aspiration." "I find these, like so many other stories, gross exaggerations created by the leftists." "There will be a session this evening." "Would you like to come?" "Well, I..." "Session, what kind of session?" "There's one every now and then, we, some of us, sometimes participate." "Participation?" "In what, dam it?" "Interrogations." "There's going to be one tonight." "Oban was a place where prisoners were tortured in the presence of very wealthy people." "They paid to watch their enemies tortured." "At this point, Brazilian armed forces participated in illegal repressive actions and ultimately these involved torture, extermination and political killings." "If they caught someone..." "Maybe you shouldn't use this in your film." "They tortured, did whatever they wanted, they arrested whoever they wanted." "Now it's your turn." "Let's start talking, little communist priest." "Albernaz and Boilesen got along very well." "As he frequently visited Oban, often he would pick up Albernaz at his house and they went to Oban together." "Your performance must be based on Brazil's Army traditions:" "Energy and kindness, authority and example, persuasion and feelings." "During 30 days..." "Will you speak now?" "Who are you?" "Who do you think you are?" "Before Oban was created, torture was not a systematic procedure." "It was carried out amateurishly." "It was brutal but it was performed without a system, without intelligence, information or method." "These new concepts were brought by Oban." "They developed more scientific methods;" "they even had a nurse among the torturers." "The match is over." "Brazil!" "Brazil!" "Brazil!" "Three times world football champion!" "At the end of 1969, beginning of the 70s, we at the ALN leadership received information from Oban prisoners that there was a foreign man among the torturers." "His physical description led us to believe that he probably belonged to the Ultra Group." "Henning had several psychological profiles." "He had several faces or personalities." "He could be very friendly, as I've seen him, and could also be extremely aggressive." "Something in Henning Boilesen's upbringing turned him into a dark and extremely sadistic person." "Although good things happened to him and in spite of being so well integrated in Brazil, he wasn't able or didn't even try to suppress his dark side." "Maybe it was just too strong for him." "He's an example of how the human creature doesn't fit into any parameters." "For good or evil." "The mysteries of human nature are complex, but you rarely see a person in whom the extremes co-exist, such opposite extremes." "Everybody has a dark side, it's part of human nature, but a duality like Boilesen's, remains a mystery to me." "He was the archetypal fictional type because he concentrated all human complexity in himself." "No fictional character is greater than one that concentrates such paradox." "I didn't meet Braulen, what's his name," "Boilen personally." " Boilesen." " Boilesen!" "But I had heard about him." "Dr. Geraldo Braulen." "The son of a bitch is involved." "The movie showed the contrast between the euphoria in Brazil during the Football World Cup and what was going on behind the scenes, in the military regime's dungeons." "Everybody knew about Operação Bandeirante." "I created a character that had a similar name." "Dr. Geraldo Braulen." "You're out of time." "Start running." "You're a dead man." "I wanted to make a film that could be shown in Brazil at that time." "I read the script." "Roberto Farias showed it to me soon after I became Embrafilme's director." "It was an important and interesting script, but I knew it could cause problems." "The film came out on 26 March." "On 27 March it was censured by the government." "I was, let's say, invited to resign from Embrafilme by a member of the military-political establishment." "He told me:" "'It's clear that it isn't a fiction film, it refers to Operação Bandeirante." "I said:" "Oh, really?" "It was obvious, evident, that that was the case." "The great difference between Boilesen and the other businessmen was that he was a fanatic, maybe a sadist." "Other businessmen financed Oban, but their names remain unknown." "Rumors began to swirl about how controversial Boilesen really was." "He went beyond being a regular financial contact, a mediator between businessmen and Oban." "It became known that he had sadistic pleasure witnessing torture and ended up taking part in it." "Information started to build up." "First that he collected money;" "he was the cashier, the treasurer of the operation that financed Oban." "Through information passed on from ourjailed comrades, we found that he participated personally in torture sessions at Oban." "He asked me what I had." "Someone said:" ""We used a new method on her, right now she's unable to walk, but she will."" "Later on I found out he was Ultragaz's president." "I already knew he collaborated with Oban." "It was part of him, of his soul." "He was like that." "A guy who went deeper, who liked this stuff." "I remember his attitude." "He had a cold expression in his eyes." "I found him to be totally different from the military types who used to hang around there." "If a guy who has nothing to do with the police frequently visits, everybody gets uncomfortable, vigilant." "What torture?" "There must have been some." "But planning it, putting a civilian to torture?" "Come on, come on." "Boilesen took part in the torture." "I consider this a very silly thing." "He visited DOl-Codi, and sometimes had meals there." "I took over the command of DOl-Codi, on the day it was created, 29 September 1970." "Boilesen was assassinated on 15 April 1971." "During this period, he came to visit me at DOI a single time, in December 1970, to wish me Happy Christmas." "He frequently visited" "Operação Bandeirante's headquarters and enjoyed the company of the people who worked there." "We felt he was a combatant just as we were." "We felt he was a warrior." "He greeted everyone, no matter if it was a soldier or an officer, he treated everybody equally, he didn't boast about being the president of the Ultra Group." "He was an exceptional guy!" "He witnessed torture, some say that he created or brought torturing devices to Brazil." "The terrorist organizations made up the story that Boilesen was executed because he visited DOI and attended interrogations." "For inventing a machine called Pianola, that gave off electric shocks, which he tested on political prisoners." "There are several devices used for electric shocks." "The Boilesen Pianola was bought in the United States and brought to São Paulo's DOl-Codi by entrepreneur Henning Albert Boilesen." "The Pianola has a keyboard like other musical instruments." "When pressed, it discharges electricity at increasing degrees." "Nobody knows what that Pianola really was, except that it was a device that gave off electric shocks driven by a keyboard." "Olavo Hansen was arrested by DOPS of São Paulo, and immediately taken to DOl-Codi where he was tortured." "Back at the cell, his comrades heard him describing the tortures he had been submitted to." "Forced to undress, he was beaten, put on the pau de arara, drowned, and received electric shocks from a more sophisticated device called Pianola Boilesen." "The culture he found in Latin America" "gave him the chance to experience his own sins and darker side." "Things he would never have done in Denmark because he would have been stopped by the system there." "But he found a country that offered him a banquet, the possibility of carrying out his most evil instincts." "It all made sense now:" "Ultragaz lending its trucks, participating in Oban's funding and its director taking part in torture sessions." "Monsieur Boilesen, besides financing, enjoyed attending and participating in torture sessions at Oban headquarters." "He was seen there by political prisoners." "This information reached the guerrilla leadership and they condemned Boilesen to death." "It became a stigma:" "This man is the devil." "Maybe, on the other side, he was considered full of goodness." "He became a myth." "Some thought he did wonderful things, others didn't, and that's how it was." "The leftists couldn't stand him at all, and they organized the action that led to his killing." "Confidential." "Statement made by Antonio André Camargo Guerra." "Organization he belongs to:" "MRT." "Last January the accused was in Guanabara State and received a list containing three names:" "Henning Arthur Boilesen, Peri Igel and Sebastião Camargo." "These three should be trailed by MRT comrades." "Carlos Lamarca requested information about them." "It was Lamarca who had asked for information about 3 people, 3 businessmen." "It was the usual story;" "they are from the CIA, and so on." "Boilesen's name was on the list marked with an X, meaning he was a top priority." "The guerrilla command received a list with 3 names:" "Boilesen's, Pery Igel's, who also belonged to the Ultra Group, and Sebastião Camargo, who headed Brazil's largest construction company." "It was said at the time that the information was to be used for keeping a record of their routines in case they were to be kidnapped, not necessarily assassinated." "We knew about this a few months earlier." "We already knew he was being observed and followed." "Henning took precautions as he knew he was a wanted man." "He carried two guns in his car:" "One on the right side for the passenger and another on the left for himself." "It is said that they've got a list of important people they want to kidnap and kill." "I don't even want to think about this." "He had been advised several times to employ bodyguards, but he didn't want to." "No." "I do it alone because that's how I settle things, in my own way." "He was fearless." "I know that the police and the government offered him protection." "I think he was stupid to try to deal with it by himself." "He must have known that sooner or later something would go wrong." "His name was on the 'death list'." "I found out about the list after his death." "That's when the list surfaced." "Security is a very serious issue nowadays." "I'm scared to death that they kidnap Geraldo." "They say there's a list." "Boilesen's reaction was spontaneous;" "he reacted like a sportsman facing his opponent." "He considered communists his opponents." "He won and lost, he killed and died." "In our organization," "I proposed that the kidnapping be transformed into capital punishment, so we sentenced Boilesen to death." "In fact the plan for killing him should have been carried out the day before, on 14 April." "14 April 1971 is an unforgettable date." "He died on the morning of 15 April." "On 14 April I left the meeting at 8 pm and went to his house." "This is probably his last photo, the one he's standing next to me." "As we said goodbye to one another," "I walked to the door." "Can you imagine the risk I incurred?" "I went with him to the door." "The day before the incident we warned him once more that something was about to happen, and it did." "He was trapped on a corner and assassinated in his own car in the light of day." "On 15 April 1971 Boilesen drove into Alameda Casa Branca and two cars with terrorists approached his." "He tried to drive up Peixoto Gomide Street towards Avenida Paulista but a street market blocked the way." "He turned right on Barão de Capanema and tried to go up Casa Branca on the left, towards Avenida Paulista." "As he arrives on the corner of Alameda Casa Branca, he stops, still inside his car." "He is shot in order not to escape." "The idea was to get him out of his car." "The two of you, get out quickly." "This son of a bitch is one of the people responsible for the tortures in Brazil." "After having been hit by a rifle gunshot" "Boilesen still tried to run away." "He got out the car and tried to escape running towards a street market, but there were comrades waiting for him there." "That's when Yuri shot him." "Two comrades got out of the car and shot several times on his back as he tried escaping." "He was gunned down, hit on his face and back." "He was shot 5 times in his back." "He was dead in the gutter and received 25 more shots in his head." "At that moment an armed man holding a machine gun got out of the car that had been following him." "Unable to react the businessman was coldly executed." "He fell by the gutter, between the curb and the street, his face looked down." "Comrade Alpha, who was heading the action, was also in charge of 'certitude'." "When you engage in such actions you task someone being in charge of the so called coup de grace, to make sure that the guy is really dead in order not to leave a task unfulfilled." "To tell you the truth I was Alpha." "I am Alpha." "I was in charge of the action." "The last shot was taken from a short distance." "Boilesen was dead." "We got into the car and drove away." "As we escaped our faces showed signs ofjoy and satisfaction." "As I turn right on Barão de Capanema Street," "I could see a white Ford Galaxy, the driver's door open and flashing lights blinking." "The car was perforated by bullets." "I took a look around and saw that besides the car, there were bullet marks all over the place, on walls, on a newsstand on the other side of the street." "As I looked to the right," "I could see dirty water flowing by the curb, and a body lying there." "I managed to drive past between the Ford Galaxy and the body and as I drove into the building where I lived," "I could hear sirens, the noise of vans arriving." "These were the vehicles that, at the time, were associated with Oban and political repression." "I saw parts of his brain along the curb;" "I didn't know what that was." "My experience in the criminal area clearly indicated that the murder had been carried out with a lot of hatred." "The street was covered with leaflets that had been thrown over his dead body and along the street." "Over Boilesen's body, disfigured by 19 shots, leaflets were left aimed at the Brazilian people," "containing the following threat:" "There are many like him, and we know who they are." "They will all face the same destiny, no matter how long it takes." "What does matter is that they shall feel the force of revolutionary justice." "An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth." "Henning Arthur Boilesen was executed." "He can't supervise tortures and assassinations at Oban any longer." "We didn't approve the cruel way in which he was killed." "We didn't want any bloodshed, but we couldn't hold a mass for someone who was protestant, who had another faith and didn't believe in the Catholic mass." "They asked me to celebrate a mass for him and I said; 'I can't celebrate a mass for him." "I can celebrate a mass for peace, but not for him." "Nor can I mention his name.'" "I was astonished but not surprised." "I was totally surprised when they called me in the morning at work, telling me that my father had suffered a terrorist attack and had been killed." "Up to this day I ask myself, 'but, why'?" "Confidential." "To the Office of Brazil's president, from National Service for Information (SNl)," "Sao Paulo Regional Office." "On the 16th in the morning, Mr. Henning Albert Boilesen, assassinated by terrorists from MRTand ALN, was buried." "The population was deeply shocked by the extreme cruelty of the crime." "Boilesen had collaborated intensely with military authorities in the fight against terrorism, chiefly with significant material support in the setting up of Operação Bandeirante." "He offered unconditional help to these law enforcement organizations and this rendered him a large circle of friendship with military and police authorities." "Don't forget that Boilesen exposed himself an awful lot, frequently visiting Oban headquarters where many prisoners must have recognized him." "There aren't any other people who were as physically involved as he was." "My father's involvement with Operação Bandeirante..." "No!" "I'm sure about that." "Just like I'm sure about the CIA and other absurdities." "I'm certain." "Besides, he didn't even have the necessary ideology." "There were several theories." "Who could have benefited from his death?" "There were at least 3." "I will mention one:" "They thought he was killed by the communists." "I don't want to speak about the other two." "I think Boilesen was a utopian." "He was an idealist." "His way of being, his open and extroverted nature" "made him a victim of himself." "TERRORISTS MURDER INDUSTRIALIST" "The news of Boilesen's death was celebrated." "The political and business circles condemned vigorously the brutal murder." "The Chamber of Deputies adjourned its activities in Boilesen's honor." "His funeral procession stirred great emotion in São Paulo." "Federal Senate, 15 April 1971." "This is a solemn homage of grief for the death of Henning Albert Boilesen, assassinated by terrorists in the city of São Paulo." "He wasn't born in Brazil, but I can assure you that nobody was as Brazilian as he was." "He envisioned the future." "He loved our country." "People were happy he was dead, I can't deny it." "Nowadays, the idea of someone being happy because of someone else's death is shocking, but for those who lived at that time and knew how painful it was to have comrades assassinated, and the type of suffering Boilesen caused," "can understand how and why people were glad about his death." "At the time it was like that, you are either on my side or against me." "Well, he was against me." "Nobody with a good upbringing will be happy that someone else is assassinated." "But anyhow, it was one less on their side." "Everyone only speaks about Boilesen because he was killed, he was chosen as an example for the others." "I could name about 10 other ones, but I won't because..." "I didn't think that Boilesen's elimination could be considered as a terrorist act." "I thought that it was a warning to the business community." "Even though they were protected by security agents they were not immune to a radical solution." "To me it's a crime that remains unpunished." "BOILESEN'S MURDERER KILLED IN SAO PAULO" "TERRORIST KILLED ONE DAY AFTER KILLING INDUSTRIALIST" "Joaquim de Alencar Seixas was arrested by DOI agents one day after Boilesen's death and killed as he tried to escape." "Dimas Antonio Casimiro was killed 2 days after Boilesen's death during a shot-out against DOI agents who were going to arrest him at his hideout." "Antonio Sergio de Matos was killed during a shooting by DOI agents on 23 September 1971, and Yuri Xavier Pereira died in combat against DOI agents on 14 June 1972." "Carlos Eugenio Sarmento Coelho da Paz is a music teacher in Rio de Janeiro." "I still suffer and shall always suffer the deaths I lived, the ones I died, the one I didn't die and the ones I committed." "According to reports, Gregorio Mendonça, recently died in Rio Grande do Sul." "Laerte Dorneles Meliga was up to recently vice-secretary of Planning," "Administration and Budget of State Secretary," "Olivio Dutra." "Gilberto Faria Lima and José Dan de Carvalho must be alive as they're not in the list of the dead or of those who disappeared during the military regime." "There was someone who was sadly infamous for his connection with Oban." "A Danish executive who was a Brazilian national." "His name was Henning Albert Boilesen." "I wanted to write about the involvement of the business community with repression, because little was said about this;" "it was swept under the carpet for obvious reasons." "Most of the companies that took part in this are still around, and they weren't interested nor were the government, to investigate and deal with this issue after the country's re-democratization process." "This subject has been forgotten." "It's much more convenient to avoid discussing this as it will bring back many issues that will affect certain people." "In fact Boilesen was the one that exposed himself, but many others had a similar attitude as they supported and justified repression!" "Therefore it's better not to talk about him because in doing so, as the Latin saying goes:" "De te fabula narratur], I'm telling your story." "Not yours but the others' who were also in the shadows." "I guess that's it." "Now you've got the image of a man who was born in Denmark, went to Brazil, where he settled down, started off from the bottom and nowadays is a great industrialist." "The names of dead terrorists are honored in public spaces." "Henning Albert Boilesen's family hasn't received any pension from the government up to now." "The street that isn't really a street but his name is up there." " Good afternoon." " Good afternoon." "Do you know who Henning Boilesen was?" "Henning Boilesen was a business administrator, president, I guess, of Ultragaz." "He was exchanged for terrorists who were imprisoned when the military were in power and," "if my memory doesn't fail me, was even assassinated."