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amerine
Adolfo López Mateos, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz and Luis Echeverría
Scipio_Afri
No surprise that this falls before the reforms brought forth by the church committee in 1975. They were presidents spanning from 1960-1976
rdiddly
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."

meitham
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.
fellellor
It's hard for me to believe that the US gov considers Mexican establishment to be it's enemy.
wmeredith
Have you listened to anything POTUS has said about Mexico in the last year?
fellellor
I meant in general, traditionally etc. That should count for something.
dwyer
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.
pacomerh
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.
davidmr
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/