On Thu, Oct 1, 2026 at 10:48 AM National Security Archive <[email protected]> wrote:
> Covert Operations Targeted Student Groups Before and After Tlatelolco > Massacre. On 58th Anniversary, Archive Calls on CIA to Declassify All > Remaining Records on 1968 Student > Killings > > > > > > > *The CIA Station in Mexico: The Last JFK Assassination Records Secrets * > > <https://default.salsalabs.org/T6f19c4c2-f1f2-4abb-a6b2-dba2f593d578/12238b38-d371-4bc9-b2b2-ab5a3bdb144f> > Covert Operations Targeted Student Groups Before and After Tlatelolco > Massacre On 58th Anniversary, Archive Calls on CIA to Declassify All > Remaining Records on 1968 Student Killings > > > > *Washington, D.C., October 1, 2026* - The CIA continues to keep secret > major substantive portions of an internal accounting of its activities in > Mexico, including information on covert operations targeting student groups > in the days leading up to the massacre at Tlatelolco 58 years ago this week > on October 2, 1968. Long-redacted excerpts from the three-volume Mexico > City station history are among the last remaining secrets from the massive > trove of records that were reviewed for declassification under the JFK > Assassination Records Review Act of 1992. > > At the same time, other CIA documents from the JFK collection offer clues > as to what the Agency is hiding. In 1967, one year prior to the Tlatelolco > massacre, a CIA official warned of the consequences of supporting the > radical right-wing student group MURO (Movimiento Universitario de > Renovadora Orientación). “We appreciate the need for a Station militant > action team for specific harassment purposes as the need arises,” the > official wrote. “We believe, however, that the long-range negative effect > of perpetuating MURO outweighs the tactical short-range benefits to be > derived from MURO harassment actions at our instigation.” By 1968, the CIA > station in Mexico City had been financing far-right radical extremists at > universities and adding to the polarization of the Mexican student movement > for years. Together, the redacted station history and other declassified > documents from the JFK files reveal that, despite dissent within the Agency > and State Department, the CIA continued to conduct extensive operations > against leftist student groups in Mexico, even after the violence at > Tlatelolco. > > The CIA’s Mexico City station history is an essential document in the JFK > Assassination Records Collection that provides a rare view into U.S.-Mexico > relations and what the CIA considered its most important operations in a > capital of Cold War espionage. The document lists and describes dozens of > CIA covert operations carried out in Mexico, including projects with > cryptonyms like LIHUFF, LICOAX, LIMIX, LIAGOG, and LINOODLE. Yet full > transparency remains elusive, as critical redactions remain in the 2025 > release of this record. For the Agency, the secrets still buried represent > some of their most sensitive projects and relationships with foreign > governments. > > The records published today by the National Security Archive highlight > what the JFK collection does and does not reveal about CIA operations in > Mexico. Taken together, these documents provide important context to help > identify and understand the secrets the Agency still refuses to release > more than half a century later. A close reading of the redacted history and > these related records reveals what the CIA is most eager to conceal: > > - Nearly ten completely redacted pages detailing CIA operations > against left-wing student groups in the lead-up to the massacre at > Tlatelolco on October 2, 1968 > - Key paragraphs related to Miguel Nazar Haro, one of the architects > of Mexico’s brutal surveillance state and a CIA asset > - Operations targeting labor and campesino groups in Mexico City and > the countryside > - Intelligence gathering against the Mexican government through > liaison relationships with high-level members of the ruling Institutional > Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI) > > > *https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/intelligence-mexico/2026-10-01/cia-station-mexico-last-jfk-assassination-records > <https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/intelligence-mexico/2026-10-01/cia-station-mexico-last-jfk-assassination-records>* > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#43574): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/43574 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/121529361/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
