The retired army Colonel, Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, has been accused by human rights groups of ordering the illegal arrest and torture of some 500 left-wing activists.
He lead the feared Doi-Codi intelligence service from 1970 to 1974, when Brazil was under military rule.
"I fought terrorism," he said at a Truth Commission hearing in May 2013.
The army prevented Brazil from becoming a "dictatorship of the proletariat," he said.
Col Ustra never regretted or apologised for his activities against left-wing groups that fought the military government, which was in power from 1964 to 1985.
"Their aim was to depose the military and implement communism in Brazil. That was written in their programmes," he told the Truth Commission.
"There were no angels" in the Doi-Codi cells, he said.
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