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Declassified documents show three Mexican presidents worked for the CIA (huffingtonpost.com.mx)
73 points by lobo_tuerto on Jan 20, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 15 comments



This has actually been declassified for quite a while[0].

Coincidentally, I started reading Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords And Their Godfathers by Anabel Hernández last week, and although the writing is a bit scattershot, it’s quite an eye-opener. I’m only 1/4 through it, but so far, the level of detail is shocking about precisely how deep rooted the corruption is (or at least was until the mid nineties, which is where I’m at now) inside the Mexican government and simultaneously how invasive the interference is from the US government.

[0] https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB204/


Key part towards the end. "Mexico partnered with the U.S in many ways, from helping intercept the russian and cuban embassies, to trying to find links between Oswald and the Kennedy assassination. Sources told the CIA that Oswald had deposited 5k dlls in a Mexican bank. In a document dated march 9, 1964, it was reported that Mexico traced all of these deposits in Mexican banks trying to look for the money. They didn't find any transactions by Oswald" wrote the NYT as part of these new revelations.


Adolfo López Mateos, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz and Luis Echeverría


No surprise that this falls before the reforms brought forth by the church committee in 1975. They were presidents spanning from 1960-1976


Finally Trump does something I like (declassifying these Kennedy files).

I also liked the snide remark in the article about how these presidents were CIA employees who governed Mexico "in their spare time."


The 25 year deadline to declassify them was set in the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, signed by George Bush senior

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_John_F._Kennedy_Assa...


He didn't declassify them. They were scheduled to be declassified. Trump's involvement was that the IC asked him to stop them from being declassified and he ignored their request, probably out of spite for the IC.


What's the chance these documents are not actually true? If I was the CIA I would use these leaks to declassify false information about my enemies, hoping to destabilise their regimes.


It's hard for me to believe that the US gov considers Mexican establishment to be it's enemy.


Have you listened to anything POTUS has said about Mexico in the last year?


I meant in general, traditionally etc. That should count for something.


Anyone have a good English translation?



When I viewed it in Chrome, it offered to translate it automatically, and it was pretty decent.


No lo creo.




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