CIA Conspired with the Right on the Eve of Mexico's '68 Massacre
Declassified records show the CIA funded Mexican right-wing student groups before the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre.
Newly analyzed declassified records show the CIA funded right-wing Mexican student groups, including MURO via the IISE front, in the years around the October 1968 Tlatelolco massacre. The National Security Archive says the agency ran at least five projects over two decades aimed at student leadership, the PRI, and the National Polytechnic Institute, and that it subsidized training for DFS official Miguel Nazar Haro. Portions covering his role before Tlatelolco remain censored, and the Archive is calling for a fully unredacted CIA history of its Mexico station.
- CIA funded right-wing student groups, including MURO, before the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre.
- National Security Archive says at least five CIA projects targeted Mexican student leadership.
- Miguel Nazar Haro's pre-massacre role remains censored in the released CIA history.
- Researchers urge the CIA to publish an uncensored history of its Mexico station.
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This article by Jim Cason and David Brooks originally appeared in the October 1, 2026 edition of La Jornada , Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper. Washington and New York .
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