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LITEMPO: CIA Spy Operations in Mexico National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 204 Posted - October 18, 2006 Newly-declassified U.S. government documents and interviews shed new light on what the American Central Intelligence Agency knew--and did not know--about the terrible events of 1968 in Mexico City. Winston Scott, the CIA's top man in Mexico at the time, was a brash and charming 59-year-old American who operated out of the U.S. Embassy on Reforma. The CIA documents, now publicly available in the U.S. National Archives in Washington, show Scott relied on his friendship with President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz; then-Secretary of Gobernación Luis Echeverría; and other senior officials to inform Washington about the student movement whose demands challenged the government's monopoly on power. The documents, reported here for the first time, show that Scott recruited a total of 12 agents in the upper echelons of the Mexican government between 1956 and 1969. His informants included two presidents of Mexico, and two men who were later indicted for war crimes. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB204/index.htm __._,_.___Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM
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