| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Robert O. Kirkland. Observing Our Hermanos De Armas: U.S. Military Attaches in Guatemala, Cuba, and Bolivia, 1950–1964. (Latin American Studies: Social Sciences and Law.) New York: Routledge. 2004. Pp. 224. $70.00.
The first permanent American intelligence agencies—the Office of Naval Intelligence and Military Intelligence—were established more than 120 years ago and immediately proceeded to deploy military attachés overseas. Ironically, attachés have in recent decades become virtually anonymous figures submerged in the huge United States intelligence community.	1
This anonymity to some degree extends to the academic community, but there is a reason. Most reports from military attachés carried security classifications, and for the post-World War II period, only a small percentage of these documents have been declassified. Fortunately, Robert O. Kirkland, a U.S. Army officer with the appropriate clearances, has opened a window on the history of military attachés stationed in Latin America. He has selected three countries during key periods in the Cold War: Guatemala, 1950–1954; Cuba, 1952–1958; and Bolivia, 1958–1964. He addresses the reporting of army, air force, and naval attachés, although the focus is on army and air force attachés. Furthermore, Kirkland provides an excellent introduction on the training (or lack thereof) of military attachés, a brief historical overview of their deployments, and a method for evaluating the accuracy of their reporting.	. . .

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