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104-10105-10272 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/1974)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch72061 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10105-10272 ., 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 S rc w t 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 my 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 of an 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 day of his departur Bob North airmailed me a copy of e English) language Shangha Pot announcing his departure, sendipg a dupli- - Late copy to CIA headquarters. To replace the departure an- nouncement I fabricated a story in which the Mexican Communist % as quoted as deprecating fellow Mexicans and saying/among other things, that Mexican peasants could never hope t6 achieve the ultural level of the superior Chinese. I cabled th fabrication to headquarters, where a s eci type font had been made by repro- ducing samples from th $hAngiaiPo2 My fabricated :tory was set . in this duplicate type and the entire front page ofth se-created b technical means. A dozen copies were pouched to me and were nt t'vd before the target Communist returned to Mexico. The fabricated newspapers were made available to ; gent- juminalists who published facsimiles of theoffensive interview to- ' , 9I4 i1 -~ ~ ~ A - I it ............................Q( I , I i / 1 iJ ~ I('

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