Document · 2012
CMRI decision on the Operação Prato records (Brazil, 2012)
Also known as CMRI Operação Prato, Recurso 60502.000774/2012-53
A 2012 decision of Brazil's Joint Commission for the Reassessment of Information (Comissão Mista de Reavaliação de Informações, CMRI), the last appeal body under the access-to-information law. A citizen had asked the Air Force for the reports, films and photographs of Operação Prato. The Air Force replied, at each stage, that its UFO records had gone to the National Archives; the requester said the Operação Prato material was not there. The commission sided with the Air Force without saying where the films and photographs are.
It is the clearest official record of the gap in this case: Capt. Hollanda said his team took hundreds of photographs and that the full report went to the Air Force General Staff, but no official body has produced them.
Source: Casa Civil da Presidência da República (CMRI), 2012; the decision's date is illegible in our scan, and quotations correct obvious scan errors
Facts and claims
- documented Under Brazil's access-to-information law a citizen asked the Air Force Command for the “relatórios, vídeos, imagens e demais documentos referentes à Operação Prato (1977-1978)”. At every stage the Air Force answered that its public-domain UFO records had been sent to the Arquivo Nacional. Source: doc-cmri-operacao-prato-2012.pdf
- documented In his final appeal the requester said the Operação Prato reports, videos and images “não se encontram disponíveis no Arquivo Nacional” (are not available at the National Archives). The Joint Commission for the Reassessment of Information (CMRI) unanimously rejected the appeal, accepting the Comptroller General's reasoning that the documents had been passed to the National Archives according to the Air Force. Source: doc-cmri-operacao-prato-2012.pdf
Connected files
Incidents
- Operação Prato (Colares) (about) — The Air Force said its public UFO records had gone to the National Archives; the requester said the Operação Prato reports were not available there
Mentioned in this file
- National Archives and Records Administration (Organization)
- Uyrangê Hollanda (Person)
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