The director of the ANTT, in statements to Lusa, said that, within the scope of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), funded by the European Union, to be completed by 2026, the Torre do Tombo's priority is "the digitisation of Salazar's archive and making it available to the public, with a catalogue partially on the Internet, in addition to [the inventory] currently existing on paper, authored by Madalena Garcia [former deputy director of the ANTT], published by Editorial Estampa in 1992." The official said that the digitisation of 1.2 million images of the so-called Salazar Archive is planned, consisting of 1177 boxes, two files and a filing cabinet with personal objects. The archive of the President of the Government of the dictatorship, who assumed he was "writing for History", was initially in the National Library of Portugal (BNP), but, by Decree-Law no. 279, of August 1991, its transfer to the new facilities of the Torre do Tombo was determined, where it was incorporated on 17 January 1992. This "very large" archive occupies about 460 metres of documentation, and is the third most sought after, surpassed only by the Inquisition Archive, which remains the most consulted, and by the political police of the dictatorship, the PVDE/PIDE/DGS, created by Salazar in 1933, the second most requested. Salazar's "Diaries" are fully transcribed, a ten-year work by Madalena Garcia, and were published in 'ebook' by Porto Editora in 2021, being made available free of charge in the reference room of the Torre do Tombo, in Lisbon. Salazar's handwriting is awful, said the director of the Torre do Tombo, and it is not easy to read the manuscript. But these "Diaries", a designation that he himself attributed to them, "have a very interesting thing, which is not common in this type of work, which are the detailed indexes." The collection thus gives "a large set of information on [Salazar's] daily life: who he received and how many times he was appointed; we learn that every Sunday he had dinner with the doctor Bissaya Barreto, the books he read, etc.", he continued. "He himself stated that he was writing for History", Silvestre Lacerda told Lusa. These "Diaries" - often also referred to as "Agendas" - have the day and time he received people and the subjects he dealt with. "For example, we learn that Salazar received, on the eve of the military uprising that led to the Spanish Civil War [1936-1939], General José Sanjurjo [1872-1936] who led the nationalist uprising and was succeeded by General Francisco Franco [1892-1975], who led the destiny of the Spanish State, autocratically, until 1975." "The day before, at three o'clock in the afternoon, if I am not mistaken, Salazar received Sanjurjo. This shows that Salazar was aware of what was going to happen and that the question of saying that Portugal was always neutral is a myth", assured the director of the ANTT. Salazar presided over the Government of the dictatorship for more than 36 years, from 1932 to 1968. He took over the Finance portfolio for the first time in 1926, for 15 days, after the military coup of 28 May, which put an end to the First Republic. He returned to Finance and the Government two years later, when he secured control of the mechanisms of the State, which he had not previously managed to do. In 1930, he temporarily held the position of Minister of the Colonies, establishing a colonising policy, centralised in Lisbon, through various economic, financial, political and administrative diplomas, including the Colonial Act, which was later integrated into the Constitution of 1933. This legislative device assumed the "historical function" of "possessing and colonising overseas dominions and of civilising" the local populations, which it stratified between "civilised, assimilated and indigenous", without recognising their citizenship, and establishing strict conditions for them to obtain it. The laws of Salazar's colonial policy, which remained in force until the 1960s, framed the practice of racism, extensive social and cultural discrimination, and legitimised an economy based on forced labour, repeatedly denounced by the press, agencies and international organisations. Also Read: Amílcar Cabral was feared by the PIDE who persecuted him since he was a student (Portuguese version)