Mexican President Was a CIA Asset, New Document Shows

Jose Lopez Portillo is the fourth Mexican leader linked to U.S. intelligence

José López Portillo, the president of Mexico from 1976 to 1982, was a U.S. intelligence asset, according to a CIA document declassified today by the National Archives.

In a November 29, 1976, memorandum for the record, a CIA official told colleagues involved in the declassification of JFK files that the incoming president of Mexico had “control of Liaiso…