Becker Marc Becker

FBI in Latin America (eBook, PDF)

The Ecuador Files

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372783
• Artikelnr.: 54789072

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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