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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
No, I'm fairly confident only a relatively small group of officers with the power and authority to act would have been involved although I'm equally sure there'd have to be hundreds, if not thousands of the lower ranks at least sympathetic to the idea.
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That was the idea behind. In Portugal, the movement involved a small number of officers of course but it had touched (at a political level) thousands of junior officers who had join with Political meeting over the past years.
Of course, these officers and a large number of their soldiers where supporting the coup. As a result, they simply refused to move out of cantonment on the government order and the resistance was only put up by the PIDE. STASI could have been equally blind (actually they were when the wall fall down).