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What do you think about The massacre of Tlatelolco in Mexico 02-10-68 ?

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The CIA's reliance on high-level informants including the President of Mexico for "intelligence" about the student protest movement in 1968 that culminated in the infamous Tlatelolco massacre misled Washington about responsibility for the repression, according to documents obtained by journalist Jefferson Morley and posted today on the Web by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.

The declassified U.S. documents reveal CIA recruitment of agents within the upper echelons of the Mexican government between 1956 and 1969. The informants used in this secret program included President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz and future President Luis Echeverría. The documents detail the relationships cultivated between senior CIA officers, such as chief of station Winston Scott, and Mexican government officials through a secret spy network code-named "LITEMPO." Operating out of the U.S.

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  1. I think about it less than  the "Massacre of the Innocents" at Cawnpore India during the Mutiny...now THAT was a massacre..what you are talking about is bull dookie


  2. Well....  An evidence of an evil empire in action! A genocidal and coward action against civilians! shame on Nixon!

  3. Sounds about right considering the political history between the two countries.

  4. WHO F-ING CARES !!!!!

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