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104-10105-10272 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (1/1/1974)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch10179 and id is 1 raw text is: 05-10272 tC / - c~. ~ K' I I had access to the pages of Mexico's most respected newspapers, penetrations of the Communist Party of Mexico and the Trotskyite offshoot and two organizations that could accomplish medium-size 73. public demonstrations on call. From time to time our Mexican agents disrupted Communist meetings held indoors with CIA-manufactured stink bombs and itching powder. One such disturbance took place during the well- attended recantation speech of Communist artist Diego Rivera. At m request Joe Bryan lent me an artist who spent a month at the station and turned out enough poster designs so that for several months a different anti-Communist poster appeared on the walls of Mexico City each week. These poster campaigns did much to awaken Mexican public consciousness to the menace of interna - tional Communism and appeared under the aegis of an organization headed by a Mexican of unimpeachable reputation. A long letter from Bob and Maxine North in Bangkok informed me that Bob's cover work was to establish a Thai film industry, erect a modern studio and produce a lengthy film reenactment ofan epic Thai legend. For her part, Maxine was learning Thai and improving her already first-rate golf game. En route Washington for consulta- tion. Bob spent a few days with me in Mexico City, where we planned a complicated operation designed to discredit a prominent Mexican Communist. The operation required critical timing and a good deal ofwork by the printing services section of CIA's Technical Services Division. The Mexican Communist leader was then visiting Peking. On the dav of h depart Bob North airmailed me a copy of e Engh languag 11Jannoucing his departure, sendipg a dupli- <ate copy to CIA headquarters. To replace the departure an- .noutncement I fabricated a story in which the Mexican'Comnmunist \%as quoted as deprecating fellow Mexicans and saying/among other things, that Mexican peasants could never hope to achieve the cultural level of the superior Chinese. I cabled the fabrication to headquiarters, where a secij type font had been'made by repro- ducing samples from th My fabricated.tory was set ill this duplicate type and the entire front page ofth. e-created I) technical means. A dozen copies were pouched to me and were ar'rived before the target Communist returned to Mexico. The fabricated newspapers were made/ available to Qgent '. JInIullists who published facsimiles of the,iffensive interview to- it 75

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