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FBI in Latin America The Ecuador Files

Becker Marc
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780822369080
Publisert
2017-08-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Becker Marc

Biographical note

Marc Becker is Professor of History at Truman State University and the author of Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements, also published by Duke University Press, Twentieth-Century Latin American Revolutions, and Pachakutik: Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador.

FBI in Latin America The Ecuador Files

Becker Marc
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk
Becker Marc
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk
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During the Second World War, the FDR administration placed the FBI in charge of political surveillance in Latin America. Through a program called the Special Intelligence Service (SIS), 700 agents were assigned to combat Nazi influence in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. The SIS’s mission, however, extended beyond countries with significant German populations or Nazi spy rings. As evidence of the SIS’s overreach, forty-five agents were dispatched to Ecuador, a country without any German espionage networks. Furthermore, by 1943, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover shifted the SIS’s focus from Nazism to communism. Marc Becker interrogates a trove of FBI documents from its Ecuador mission to uncover the history and purpose of the SIS’s intervention in Latin America and for the light they shed on leftist organizing efforts in Latin America. Ultimately, the FBI’s activities reveal the sustained nature of US imperial ambitions in the Americas.
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The largely unknown story of the FBI’s surveillance operations in Latin America during the 1940s provides new insights into leftist organizations and the nature of the U.S.’s imperial ambitions in the western hemisphere.
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Preface  vii Acknowledgments  ix Abbreviations  xi Introduction. FBI  1 1. SIS  17 2. Communism  53 3. Labor  95 4. La Gloriosa  125 5. Constitution  157 6. Coup  193 7. Departures  223 Conclusion. Cold War  249 Notes   259 Bibliography   299 Index  311
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"Becker’s fine study fills a void in the historical record of US-Latin American relations. . . . Highly recommended."
“Written by a leading historian of Ecuador and social movements in Latin America, The FBI in Latin America draws on an impressive and far-reaching body of surveillance documents produced by the FBI and the US State Department. Reconstructing the history of Latin American left-wing organizations, Marc Becker provides a new perspective on events in twentieth-century Ecuador and the activities of communist, labor, women's, Indigenous, and broad-based social movements.”
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During the Second World War, the FDR administration placed the FBI in charge of political surveillance in Latin America. Through a program called the Special Intelligence Service (SIS), 700 agents were assigned to combat Nazi influence in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. The SIS’s mission, however, extended beyond countries with significant German populations or Nazi spy rings. As evidence of the SIS’s overreach, forty-five agents were dispatched to Ecuador, a country without any German espionage networks. Furthermore, by 1943, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover shifted the SIS’s focus from Nazism to communism. Marc Becker interrogates a trove of FBI documents from its Ecuador mission to uncover the history and purpose of the SIS’s intervention in Latin America and for the light they shed on leftist organizing efforts in Latin America. Ultimately, the FBI’s activities reveal the sustained nature of US imperial ambitions in the Americas.
Les mer
The largely unknown story of the FBI’s surveillance operations in Latin America during the 1940s provides new insights into leftist organizations and the nature of the U.S.’s imperial ambitions in the western hemisphere.
Les mer
Preface  vii Acknowledgments  ix Abbreviations  xi Introduction. FBI  1 1. SIS  17 2. Communism  53 3. Labor  95 4. La Gloriosa  125 5. Constitution  157 6. Coup  193 7. Departures  223 Conclusion. Cold War  249 Notes   259 Bibliography   299 Index  311
Les mer
"Becker’s fine study fills a void in the historical record of US-Latin American relations. . . . Highly recommended."
“Written by a leading historian of Ecuador and social movements in Latin America, The FBI in Latin America draws on an impressive and far-reaching body of surveillance documents produced by the FBI and the US State Department. Reconstructing the history of Latin American left-wing organizations, Marc Becker provides a new perspective on events in twentieth-century Ecuador and the activities of communist, labor, women's, Indigenous, and broad-based social movements.”
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780822369080
Publisert
2017-08-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Becker Marc

Biographical note

Marc Becker is Professor of History at Truman State University and the author of Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements, also published by Duke University Press, Twentieth-Century Latin American Revolutions, and Pachakutik: Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador.

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