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The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files Paperback - 2017

by Marc Becker


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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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  • Title The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files
  • Author Marc Becker
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press
  • Date 2017-08-25
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780822369080 / 0822369087
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
  • Library of Congress subjects Latin America - Foreign relations - United, United States - Foreign relations - Latin
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017007585
  • Dewey Decimal Code 327.730

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About the author

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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