Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA Cover
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Our Man in Mexico Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA

Jefferson Morley

Mexico City was the Casablanca of the Cold War-a hotbed of spies, revolutionaries, and assassins. The CIA's station there was the front line of the United States' fight against international communism, as important for Latin America as Berlin was for Europe. And its undisputed spymaster was Winston...

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This book tells the story of Lee Harvey Oswald's trip to Mexico City weeks before the assassination, where he visited the Cuban and Soviet embassies. The authors detail the CIA's knowledge of Oswald's activities and their subsequent denial of having any information about him.

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We wrote a book, Our Man in Mexico.

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This book tells the story of Lee Harvey Oswald's trip to Mexico City weeks before the assassination, where he visited the Cuban and Soviet embassies. The authors detail the CIA's knowledge of Oswald's activities and their subsequent denial of having any information about him.

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We wrote a book, Our Man in Mexico.

The story that I tell in Our Man in Mexico is Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who will be accused of killing the president and who will deny it and then be killed in police custody, goes to Mexico City six weeks before the assassination and visits the Cuban consulate and the Soviet embassy seeking to get a visa to travel to Cuba.

What the CIA told the Warren Commission was we didn't know anything about this guy. We knew so little about him, we didn't even get a picture of him, a surveillance picture of him.

As I report in Our Man in Mexico, the station chief in Mexico City, Winn Scott, said specifically that was not true.

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