...Matthew C. Ingram Political Intelligence and the Creation of Modern Mexico, 1938–1954 . By Navarro Aaron W. . University Park : Pennsylvania University Press , 2010 . Photographs. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv , 301 pp. Cloth . Copyright 2012 by Duke University...

... are detailed and illuminating. All told, it makes for very interesting as well as pleasant reading. The authors place Morley’s mission within the broader contest of Wilson’s Latin American strategy, helping to fill an important gap in the history of U.S. intelligence. Morley’s highly dubious report...

...J. Fred Rippy An Intelligent American’s Guide to the Peace . Under the general editorship of, and with an introduction by, Welles Sumner . ( New York : The Dryden Press , 1945 . Pp. vi , 370 . Maps. $3.75 .) Copyright 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 ...

...Julie A. Fisher Justice in a New World: Negotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America is a collection of essays that uses the lens of justice to study power struggles in the British and Iberian Americas. These authors agree that justice is multivalent, ranging...

.... By universalizing Communist standards of culture, behavior, and political values that leaders glossed as colorless, state agents ranging from the Ministry of Education and the media to Fidel Castro and Cuba's top intelligence chiefs anticipated and co-opted historical memories of slavery as well as cultural...

... on the threshold of history and on the borders of the intelligible. However, the impossibility of explaining her actions in a rational way constitutes a formidable challenge for the historian. In this respect, the article is also a reflection on the limits and possibilities of the representative faculties...

... . Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Stanley E. Hilton, whose Suástica sobre o Brasil (1979) was the first scholarly study to pierce the veil of secrecy shrouding German military intelligence (Abwehr) operations in Brazil during the Second World War, has now written a much revised...

... for acts of war against the United States. More importantly, German activity put Mexico in grave danger. A discovery of these German efforts by Allied intelligence and their publication in the U.S. popular press would have revived latent memories of the Zimmermann Telegram scandal. It is possible...

... prosecutor indicted José Antonio Zorrilla Pérez, former director of the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS), one of Mexico's intelligence agencies. However, many close observers of the case doubted that Buendía's assassination was the work of one midlevel public official. Among them were Russell H. Bartley...

.... It is the story of the Abwehr— German armed forces intelligence service—operations in Brazil. The creation of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the Abwehr organized an extensive spy and communications network throughout the Americas that attempted to utilize Brazil as a radio transmission point to Germany. Apparently...

... greatly from this book. The book also is very good at showing the relationship between US government agencies, including diplomatic, military, intelligence, and law enforcement, and their Mexican counterparts. Sometimes US officials worked well together to combat smuggling and spying, while on other...

... National Archives and the National Intelligence Service. However, and perhaps because her book was first published in 2012, Chirio did not access the archives from the Air Force Intelligence Center (CISA), which became available at the Brazilian National Archives only after Law No. 12.527 was passed...

... on confidential sources of information and are written in a journalistic, rather than a scholarly, style; both place the assassination of Letelier within the broader context of United States intervention in Chilean affairs; and both raise disturbing questions about the possibility that United States intelligence...

... the triumph of the revolution in 1959, Escalante earned a university degree and embarked on a career in the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR). He specialized in intelligence and, in 1976, was named chief of the Directorate of State Security. In that capacity he cooperated, under orders from the Cuban...

... the backing of the Foreign Office's Intelligence Center, researched at length in the 2000s by historian Pio Penna Filho. Rettig, in the meantime, tried to gather information about a plan in Rio de Janeiro to deploy guerrilla groups in the Andes. Simon also points to the ties between fascist Chilean group...

... and Social Order, DOPS). 12 The FBI files obtained for my research reveal another side of the story. The international investigation of Veríssimo exposes a nuanced picture of inter-American intelligence. This story is, in turn, connected to questions of censorship in the international circulation of ideas...

...: interlocutors are “informants,” information is “intelligence.” How all that intelligence squeezed from informants affected the potentates up north is hard to say. There is no shortage of superiority, patronizing, arrogance, and assumptions about backwardness. But whether hobnobbing at roundtables...

... elephant” simply does not square with the fact that most of its covert operations are consistent with policy formulated at the highest levels of the government. The suggestions for reform of the CIA presented in this volume are similarly limp. They do nothing more than urge that intelligence analysis...

... zeal. Much of the U.S. diplomatic and intelligence effort against Nazis in Latin America was directed at Axis sympathizers in Argentina. Some United States officials also believed that there was a dangerous Nazi-Fascist movement in Bolivia, fomented and controlled from Berlin and Buenos Aires...

... intellectual life, Wilson Martíns analyzes, in this first of seven volumes, the formation of what he calls the “Brazilian intelligence.” Following Serafim Leite, the author expands on the idea that colonial Brazil can be understood only through the Jesuits, who “conditioned Brazil’s mental perspective...