CIA Conspired with the Right on the Eve of Mexico's '68 Massacre
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- The CIA funded right-wing student groups in Mexico leading up to the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre, but still conceals details 58 years later.
- The CIA ran at least five projects over two decades to control student leadership and influence Mexican political institutions like the PRI.
- Declassified documents suggest the CIA may have played a direct role in orchestrating violence at Tlatelolco, given its close ties to Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios and Miguel Nazar Haro.
- The CIA supported right-wing groups like MURO and front organizations such as the IISE, which provided names of 3,000 Mexican communists.
- Internal CIA assessments questioned the support for MURO, which used militant harassment against leftist groups at Mexican universities.
- The CIA sponsored the training of Miguel Nazar Haro, who later became a brutal DFS director indicted for crimes including forced disappearance.
- The National Security Archive calls for the CIA to release an uncensored version of its history of activities in Mexico.