Marc Becker is a professor of Latin American Studies at Truman State University and part of Historians Against the War that was formed at the January 2003 American Historical Association meeting in response to the Bush administration’s threats against Iraq. Marc is the author of various works such as "The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files" where through a trove of FBI documents from its Ecuador mission to uncover the history and purpose of the SIS’s intervention in Latin America and for the light they shed on leftist organizing efforts in Latin America. Ultimately, the FBI’s activities reveal the sustained nature of US imperial ambitions in the Americas. Another book titled "The CIA in Ecuador" which draws on recently released US government surveillance documents on the Ecuadorian left to chart social movement organizing efforts during the 1950s. Emphasizing the competing roles of the domestic ruling class and grassroots social movements, Becker details the struggles and difficulties that activists, organizers, and political parties confronted.