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Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (January 29, 1895 - February 17, 1971) was one of the most consequential and least-publicized architects of US Cold War Latin American policy. A Harvard Law-trained academic and corporate lawyer, Berle served as assistant secretary of state for Latin American affairs under President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] from 1938 to 1944, built the State Department's wartime intelligence coordination apparatus, served as US ambassador to [[Brazil]] from 1945 to 1946, and in retirement remained active in the [[Rockefeller]] network as a lawyer, political operator, and coup coordinator until his death in 1971. His Manhattan townhouse was the site from which he monitored the 1964 Brazilian coup by shortwave radio as it unfolded alongside coup conspirator [[Alberto Byington]].[^1]
Berle was a founder of the New Deal brain trust and co-author (with [[Gardiner Means]]) of *The Modern Corporation and Private Property* (Macmillan, 1932), a foundational text of corporate liberalism that argued concentrated corporate power had superseded classical market competition. His political philosophy sought to preserve capitalism by reforming its excesses, a position that put him in perpetual tension with both the right (which he manipulated) and the left (which he despised). He distrusted communism as deeply as he distrusted fascism and built his career on the conviction that only American power could prevent either from dominating Latin America.[^2]
Berle was a founder of the New Deal brain trust and co-author (with [[Gardiner Means]]) of *The Modern Corporation and Private Property* (Macmillan, 1932), a foundational text of corporate liberalism that argued concentrated corporate power had superseded classical market competition. His political philosophy sought to preserve capitalism by reforming its excesses, a position that put him in perpetual tension with both the right (which he manipulated) and the left (which he despised). He distrusted communism as deeply as he distrusted fascism and built his career on the conviction that only American power could prevent either from dominating [[Latin America]].[^2]
### Early Career and the Brain Trust