Lecture: “Spanish Exiles and Falangists in New York, 1936-43”

During and just following the Spanish Civil War, New York was a cauldron of Spanish political activity. Republican exiles and pro-Franco nationalists clashed in the pages of local newspapers. The United States government, fearing a “fifth column” of fascist support was taking shape in the Western Hemisphere, launched a massive surveillance operation to monitor the activities of Franco’s Falange agents. In this lecture by Dr. John Nieto-Phillips (Indiana University, Bloomington), we will look at declassified FBI surveillance reports as well as newspaper articles that, together, shed light on the Spanish Falange in New York.