GoKawiilNational Security Archive: CIA funded right-wing Mexican student groups before 1968 massacre
Researchers at Washington's National Security Archive say declassified CIA records show the agency ran at least five projects over two decades to influence student politics in Mexico, including funding right-wing groups like MURO and the IISE and working through ties to Mexican security officials Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios and Miguel Nazar Haro. The findings, drawn from a partially declassified 539-page internal CIA history, were reported by La Jornada reporters Jim Cason and David Brooks, who note the agency still withholds key documents about its role around the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre.
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The analysts argue the documents suggest the CIA helped polarize Mexican student politics and, through its links to Mexican security services, may have played a more direct part in the violence at Tlatelolco than previously confirmed. Because Washington continues to withhold related files, researchers say the full extent of US involvement in one of Mexico's most contested historical episodes remains unverifiable. The disclosure could renew pressure on US agencies to declassify remaining records tied to Cold War-era interventions in Latin America.
- CIA ran at least five projects targeting Mexican student and political organizations over two decades
- Agency funded right-wing groups MURO and IISE and had ties to Mexican security officials Gutiérrez Barrios and Nazar Haro
- Key CIA documents on the Tlatelolco massacre period remain classified 58 years later
Source: mexicosolidarity.com — Jim Cason, 2026-10-08
Published there as: “CIA Conspired with the Right on the Eve of Mexico's '68 Massacre”
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