The Hidden War in Argentina

British and American Espionage in World War II

Panagiotis Dimitrakis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-16886-2 (ISBN)

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Though officially neutral until March 1945, Buenos Aires played a key role during World War II as a base for the South American intelligence operations of the major powers. The Hidden War in Argentina reveals the stories of the spymasters, British, Americans and Germans who plotted against each other throughout the Second World War in Argentina. In Buenos Aires, Johannes Siegfried Becker – codename ‘Sargo’ – was the man responsible for organizing most of the Nazi intelligence gathering in Latin America and the leader of ‘Operation Bolivar’, which sought to bring South America into the war on the side of the Axis powers. After the attack on Pearl Harbor the US state department pressured every South American country to join it in declaring war on Germany, and J Edgar Hoover authorized huge investments in South American intelligence operations. Argentina continued to refuse to join the conflict, triggering a US embargo that squeezed the country’s economy to breaking point. Buenos Aires continued to be a hub for espionage even as the war in Europe was ending – hundreds of high-ranking Nazi exiles sought refuge there.

This book is based on newly declassified files and details of the operations of MI6, the Abwehr, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and the FBI, as well as the OSS and the SOE. Most significantly, The Hidden War in Argentina reveals for the first time the coups of Britain’s MI6 in South America.

Panagiotis Dimitrakis holds a doctorate in War Studies from King’s College London and is an expert on intelligence and military history. He is the author of The Secret War in Afghanistan (I.B.Tauris, 2013) and Military Intelligence in Cyprus: From the Great War to Middle East Crises (I.B.Tauris, 2010) amongst others.

Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Secret Pre-histories
Introduction
1. The Ambassador
2. At War
3. The Man from the Abwehr
4. How Britain Bought The Admiral Graf Spee
5. The Islands
6. Argentina and US War Plans
7. The Director
8. Undercover
9. The Manipulator
10. The Man from the SD
11. Get the Envoy
12. On the Run
13. The Special Operatives
14. The Last General
Aftermath
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.12.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	136 x 214 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-350-16886-6 / 1350168866
ISBN-13	978-1-350-16886-2 / 9781350168862
Zustand	Neuware