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The FBI in Latin America - The Ecuador Files (Hardcover)
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The FBI in Latin America - The Ecuador Files (Hardcover)
Series: Radical Perspectives
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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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