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A series of declassified documents linked to the assassination of then President John. F. Kennedy, may contain key information documenting the manner in which at least three former presidents of Mexico worked within an espionage network installed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

An information that, in the decade of the nineties, the government of the United States decided to reserve to prevent that the revelations could cause the fall of the Mexican government during the presidency of Ernesto Zedillo. And this is due to the way in which the documents show that at least three Mexican ex-presidents were recruited as informants of the United States government, as revealed in secret cables after the assassination of Kennedy.

"That was the argument used by the State Department and the CIA to convince us not to publish some of the operative details of how they shared intelligence information with Mexico," said federal judge John R. Tunheim, head of the Mexico Review Panel. Files about the Murder, committee in charge of reviewing the case.

"Publishing how a foreign government shares intelligence with the CIA can be controversial, and I think that worried them, because the political party that was in power in Mexico in the 1990s was the same party that had been in power in the 1960s," He referred to Tunheim.

However, 25 years later, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, decided to declassify 2,800 files linked to the Kennedy assassination, even though most of the file was kept secret. A series of documents that could help rewrite the history of Mexico during the Cold War.

"The disclosure of these documents would possibly change the history of Mexico, when the level of subordination of President Adolfo López Mateos to the legendary CIA head in Mexico, Winston Scott, was officially known, who recruited him as an asset of the agency, as He did it with presidents Gustavo Diaz Ordaz and Luis Echeverria, not only could the Mexican government have collapsed, but López Mateos could have been dismissed for the only crime for which he can be tried: treason, "the journalist wrote. Raymundo Riva Palacio.

In this way, the ex-presidents Adolfo López Mateos (LITENSOR), Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (LITEMPO-2) and Luis Echeverría (LITEMPO-8) had key names through which they were identified by the CIA as part of an espionage network established by the United States in Mexico City.

Another of the officials involved was Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios, the then head of the Federal Security Directorate (DFS) until 1970, who was also a deputy, governor of Veracruz, secretary of the interior and senator. The same Miguel Nazar Haro, who also served as head of the DFS and who was a key player in the dirty war.

"It is known, from Inside the Company, the book by Philip Agee, that Luis Echeverría Álvarez worked with and for the CIA, he was not the only employee who ruled Mexico in his spare time, Díaz Ordaz was also in the business, as well as the effective policemen Miguel Nazar Haro and Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios, " wrote the writer Guillermo Sheridan , who has followed up on the case of the CIA archives on Mexico.

Points of view that show the magnitude of the revelations that could contain other documents of the CIA that to date have not been declassified by the US government.

In this way, the newly declassified documents provide new evidence of the work carried out by high officials of the Mexican government for the CIA, which adds to the evidence that already existed that at least three Mexican presidents "received money from Winston Scott, as In fact, the chief of the CIA station in Mexico, between 1956 and 1969, maintained a close friendship with the first circle of power in the country, "according to the journalist Jefferson Morley, who published the report in 2011. book Our man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the hidden history of the CIA .