Word: cardosa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Major Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, invited to speak at Harvard by the Center for European Studies (CES) and also by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has been refused permission to leave Portugal by the General Chief of Staff, Pedro Cardosa...
Tomas Harlan, director of the film "Torre Bella," a documentary on the Portugese Revolution, who helped invite Carvalho to MIT, said yesterday Carvalho received a visa from the United States but was summoned later by Cardosa who told Carvalho that he did not want Carvalho creating publicity by visiting the United States. Cardosa added that if Carvalho should try to leave the country, he would be arrested immediately, Harlan reported...
Harlan said Carvalho received a written statement from Cardosa citing five reasons why the government would not grant permission for Carvalho to leave Portugal...
Both the CES and the Film Video Section have sent telegrams to Cardosa and the President of the Portugese Republic, Ramallo Eamas, requesting that Carvalho be granted permission to come to the United States...