Joo Figueiredo worked as Head of the National Intelligence Service and was the presidential successor of Ernesto Geisel.
In 1974 he assumed the leadership of the National Intelligence Service of Brazil (March 15, 1974  June 14, 1978), a Brazil's internal security agency. Picked by President Ernesto Geisel as his successor, Figueiredo campaigned vigorously, even though he could not possibly be defeated; the president was elected by a legislature dominated by the pro-military National Renewal Alliance Party. 
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