CIA employee and former president of Mexico

The revelation comes as the US releases more documents relating to the probe into the John F. Kennedy assassination. Former Mexican president Jose Lopez Portillo, who led the country from 1976 to 1982, was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) asset, according to a new batch of declassified documents published by the US National Archives. The meeting was dedicated to the expected release in mid-December 1976 of papers from the CIA’s investigation into Lee Harvey Oswald, the man convicted for JFK’s murder. Oswald had visited Mexico shortly before the fatal shots were fired in Dallas, and US intelligence subsequently carried out a large-scale surveillance and phone-tapping operation in the country. Authorities concluded that the Marine veteran shot the president from a sixth-floor window in a nearby building as the presidential motorcade was passing by.

Oswald denied the accusations, telling the media that he was a “patsy.” He was shot dead two days after JFK’s assassination while in police custody. The other former Mexican presidents listed as a US intelligence asset are Luis Echeverria,