Ingenieros del alma: los informes sobre canción popular, ensayo y Ciencias Sociales de los servicios de inteligencia de la dictadura militar argentina sobre América Latina

The paper aims to trace, to reconstruct and to analyze the records of the Intelligence Services regarding the production of Latin-American social sciences in the period 1976-1983. The object "Latin America" is to the services of intelligence a priori associated with and connoting "communist", "revolutionary" or "subversive". All the above led to an exhaustive work of exegesis and research on the production of Latin-American Social Sciences describing a double process: introducing professionalism in politics and political radicalization. The documents found in the Archive of the former Directio...