Book Description
Postwar Left -- CIA -- Coups -- Moscow Gold -- Divisions -- Transitions -- Populism -- Dissension -- Everyday Forms of Organization -- Communist Threats -- Resurgent Left -- 1959.
Author : Marc Becker
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Ecuador
ISBN : 9781478010357
Postwar Left -- CIA -- Coups -- Moscow Gold -- Divisions -- Transitions -- Populism -- Dissension -- Everyday Forms of Organization -- Communist Threats -- Resurgent Left -- 1959.
Author : Marc Becker
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
ISBN : 9781478012993
"The CIA in Ecuador turns to newly released CIA and other government surveillance documents to write a history of the Ecuadorian left between the Second World War and the 1960s. Although understudied, an understanding of the left's organizational trajectory in Latin America between the Second World War and the 1959 Cuban Revolution is critical to gaining a fuller appreciation for the subsequent and better-studied heightened period of militant mobilizations in the 1960s. This study concentrates specifically on Ecuador, both to look at the novelties of that case study as well as for the light it can shed on larger regional and global patterns"--
Author : Marc Becker
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0822372789
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.
Author : Marc Becker
Publisher : American Encounters/Global Interactions
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 26,54 MB
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Ecuador
ISBN : 9781478011385
Postwar Left -- CIA -- Coups -- Moscow Gold -- Divisions -- Transitions -- Populism -- Dissension -- Everyday Forms of Organization -- Communist Threats -- Resurgent Left -- 1959.
Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781574886412
By intelligence officials for intelligent people
Author : J. Patrice McSherry
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742568709
This powerful study makes a compelling case about the key U.S. role in state terrorism in Latin America during the Cold War. Long hidden from public view, Operation Condor was a military network created in the 1970s to eliminate political opponents of Latin American regimes. Its key members were the anticommunist dictatorships of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Brazil, later joined by Peru and Ecuador, with covert support from the U.S. government. Drawing on a wealth of testimonies, declassified files, and Latin American primary sources, J. Patrice McSherry examines Operation Condor from numerous vantage points: its secret structures, intelligence networks, covert operations against dissidents, political assassinations worldwide, commanders and operatives, links to the Pentagon and the CIA, and extension to Central America in the 1980s. The author convincingly shows how, using extralegal and terrorist methods, Operation Condor hunted down, seized, and executed political opponents across borders. McSherry argues that Condor functioned within, or parallel to, the structures of the larger inter-American military system led by the United States, and that declassified U.S. documents make clear that U.S. security officers saw Condor as a legitimate and useful 'counterterror' organization. Revealing new details of Condor operations and fresh evidence of links to the U.S. security establishment, this controversial work offers an original analysis of the use of secret, parallel armies in Western counterinsurgency strategies. It will be a clarion call to all readers to consider the long-term consequences of clandestine operations in the name of 'democracy.'
Author : William Blum
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 MB
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1350348198
In Killing Hope, William Blum, author of the bestselling Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America's covert and overt military actions in the world, all the way from China in the 1940s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and - in this updated edition - beyond. Is the United States, as it likes to claim, a global force for democracy? Killing Hope shows the answer to this question to be a resounding 'no'.
Author : Stephen Schlesinger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0674260074
Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.
Author : William Blum
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 2006-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781842778272
Rogue State and its author came to sudden international attention when Osama Bin Laden quoted the book publicly in January 2006, propelling the book to the top of the bestseller charts in a matter of hours. This book is a revised and updated version of the edition Bin Laden referred to in his address.
Author : Colin Mason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 1136555110
The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth.