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# INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORTCENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCYThis material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18 U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.SECRET/NO FOREIGN DISSEMCOUNTRY MexicoREPORT NO. CS-311/11736-66SUBJECT Treatment of Victor Rico Galan,Imprisoned Leftist JournalistDATE DISTR. 29 August 1966NO. PAGES 1REFERENCESDATE OF 12-17 August 1966INFO.PLACE & Mexico, Mexico CityDATE ACQ (18 August 1966)FIELD REPORT NO. HMM-10619THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.SOURCE Mexican intellectual who is a personal friend of Victor Rico Galan,with whom he disagrees politically. Source has reported infrequentlyon Rico Galan's activities. The reported information was obtainedboth from Mrs. Rico Galan and from Francisco Martinez de la Vega.1. Francisco Martinez de la Vega, writer for Siempre, Mexican leftist   magazine, said that Colonel Eduardo Estrada Ojeda, in the police   headquarters where Victor Rico Galan and others were being held after   their arrest on charges of subversion, had been instructed to permit   Rico Galan to receive packages from his wife.2. Elena Garro, writer, told Mrs. Rico Galan that she was going   to speak to Minister of Interior Luis Echeverria to persuade   him to ensure that Rico Galan would not be manhandled by the   police during the interrogation.3. She, also, expressed skepticism about the whole affair,   saying that it was a farce and that she believed that many of   those arrested with Victor had been paid to make the statements   attributed to them.Field Comment: An unsigned article titled "New Conspiracy?" appeared onpage 8 of Siempre. It presented briefly an account of the arrest of andcharges against Rico Galan; belittled what it termed the periodicparoxysms of patriotism which seize the Mexican police and lead to sucharrests; then went on to suggest that Rico Galan, a political journalistaccustomed to expressing his ideas in signed articles, could hardly bethought of as a conspirator. The article concluded with a plea for respectboth for Rico Galan's constitutional rights and for the rights of a freejournalism.Headquarters Comment: This article appeared in issue no. 687, dated24 August 1966, of Siempre.1. Elena Garro, Mexican playwright and novelist, was formerly married   to Octavio Paz Lozano, prominent Mexican poet.SECRET/NO FOREIGN DISSEM| STATE  | DIA || ------ | --- || CINCSO |     |Note: Field station indicated by "e"| ARMY | NAVY | AIR | NSA | AID  | OCH  | FBI #3 || ---- | ---- | --- | --- | ---- | ---- | ------ ||      |      |     |     | USIA | LGIA | I&S    |INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT| CI/ICG                                           | 1   || ------------------------------------------------ | --- || FI/INT                                           | 1   || CA/INT                                           | 1   || CA/PROP                                          | 1   || TOTAL: IE 2, CI 4, FI 4, CA 2, WH 5 (1), DO/W 1. |     || WH/R    | 1   || ------- | --- || WH/CI   | 1   || WH/MNTY | 1   || WH/FACY | 1   |LIAISONHMM-10619LIENVOY(LIENVOY)CS-311/11736-66