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The FBI in Latin America Marc Becker

The FBI in Latin America By Marc Becker

The FBI in Latin America by Marc Becker

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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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The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files by Marc Becker

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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Becker's fine study fills a void in the historical record of US-Latin American relations. . . . Highly recommended. -- A. J. Dunar * Choice *
Becker has done extensive research for this book, and his close examination and analysis of the documentary record left behind by FBI, CIA and State Department surveillance of Ecuador are both apparent and appreciated. . . . This is an interesting, well-researched text. -- Courteney J. O'Connor * LSE Review of Books *
An exciting and ambitious effort. Students of Ecuador (and Latin America, more broadly) and US foreign policy, as well as policing and intelligence, will learn a great deal from this book. -- Stuart Schrader * Radical Americas *
Sourcing is excellent...this book stands as an excellent example of how historians can mine FBI files for information beyond the bureau. -- Douglas M. Charles * Journal of American History *
Highly original and well-researched account . . . An interesting and detailed history of the mid-century Ecuadorian left. -- Max Paul Friedman * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *
This book stands as an excellent example of how historians can mine FBI files for information beyond the bureau. -- Douglas M. Charles * Journal of American History *
A model for the innovative use of primary sources to explore multiple perspectives in history. . . . Becker deftly balances background information with detail and analysis, making the work useful and readable for scholars from many different fields. . . . Essential reading for scholars interested in twentieth-century Ecuadorian history, the history of the Latin American left, or the history of US surveillance in Latin America. -- Erin E. O'Connor * The Americas *
Marc Becker's The FBI in Latin America adds an important dimension to our understanding of U.S. interventions in Latin America . . . .Becker's work is an important contribution to the historiography of U.S.-Latin American relations, groundbreaking in the sense that it puts the FBI (not the CIA) at the heart of the earliest intelligence gathering by an agency of the U.S. government. -- Kenneth Kincaid * Against the Current *
The FBI in Latin America is a compelling history that will no doubt spawn similar studies on other countries in the region. Through the use of a fascinating and revealing set of sources, Becker is able to capture a particularly important moment in the emergence of the US as a post-WWII imperial power while simultaneously enriching our understanding of the Latin American left on the eve of its Cold War demise. This well-written book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of Latin America, US foreign policy, the Cold War, and the political left. -- Steve Striffler * Canadian Journal of History *

About Marc Becker

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.

Table of Contents

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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CIN0822369087G
9780822369080
0822369087
The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files by Marc Becker
Marc Becker
Radical Perspectives
Used - Good
Paperback
Duke University Press
2017-08-25
336
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