U.S. Military Intelligence Reports: Argentina 1918-1941
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- Title
- U.S. Military Intelligence Reports: Argentina 1918-1941
- Author
- U S
- Publication year listed
- 1918
- Format
- Public domain eBook
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About this book
U.S. Military Intelligence Reports: Argentina 1918-1941
Author: National Archives (United States)
Year: 1918
U.S. Military Intelligence Reports: Argentina, 1918-1941 consists of a large number of documents prepared by U.S. military intelligence officers on political, governmental, military, population, and economic developments in Argentina. Collection documents focus on political conditions in Argentina, including radical movements on both the left and right, civil unrest, labor unrest, elections, foreign relations, military organization and armaments, and Nazi activities in the country. Overview of U.S. Interwar Intelligence Activity In the years after World War I, largely as a result of lessons learned in the war, the U.S. military developed a sophisticated intelligence gathering capability. In addition to military matters such as force strength, buildups and deployments of troops, and operational readiness, American military attaches and their staffs reported on a wide range of topics, including the internal politics, economic circumstances, diplomatic affairs, press and propaganda machinery, social conditions and unrest, and foreign affairs of the countries in which they were stationed, as well as the rise and fall of the major political and military figures of the day. In the presen