424-10279-10019 Agency Information AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : Document Information ORIGINATOR : ’ FROM: TO: TITLE : DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE: CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : COMMENTS : v9.1 HW 50953 Docld: 327301664 OPENING CRITERIA : JFK Assassination System , Date: Identification Form FBI 124-10279-10019 HQ CR 109-12-221-1791 CIA CIA 09/02/1967 5 POLIT MATTERS, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, ENVOLVEMENT, PUBLIC EVIDENCE, ACAPULCO KILLINGS PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Confidential 1B Redact 04/30/1998 APPROVAL OF CIA Page i 5/7/2015
fo se Ay e ROUTINE © cf “STRAL INTELLIGENCE AGEN”) : re 44 3 Intentigence Information table. 43"3 st . PAGE 1 OF5 PAGES _STATE/INR DIA NMCC/MC (SECDEF JCS’. ARMY ‘NAVY; = AIR) CIA/NMCGC NIC NSA OcR °+sDO AID t, . wes USIA ONE ORR. Docs ccs This 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 transmisson or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law. NO FOREIGN DISSEM’ THIS 1S AN INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE. CITE TDCS. CONFI DENT I AL 021914 z | a 314 /131915 67 “Dist 2 SEPTEMBER 1967 aia x, Cap PILES whee com COUNTRY: MEXICO DOI st’, 30 august 1967 SUBJECT? Nirews 0 OF MEXICO CITY POLICE OFFICIALS ON I VOL EMENT . OF "GOVERNOR OF GUERRERO IN MASSACRE OF COPRA WORKERS | nn NE SES AS LACH ARINOT ALS! e heeaaneiconimaaal TEPER ARSE ae teem ws ACQ > 2 MEXICO, WEXICO erry C1 SEPTEMBER 1967) FIELD.-REPORT ® “NO. HMM=14, 303: SOURCE - s epuraate MEXICAN JOURNALIST WITH WELL - ESTABLISHED CONTACTS IN JOURNALISTIC, GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS a CIRCLES IN MEXICO, HE HAS BEEN A RELIABLE, THOUS?” ot - egazt INFREQUENT, REPORTER FOR MANY YEARS, HE ACQUIRED : | 225% THE -INFORMATION IN THIS REPORT | acy | = haad a Se 23 Sy . © <r = 3 ee : (SUMMARY l ae REPORT, ON THE = Ba ois. -OF EVIDENCE SEEN BY THEM PERSONALLY, THAT. PROFESSIONAL | at TG hk. Be GUNMEN EMPLOYED ON A rennnneus nid BX erm dover bal RAIMUNDO. -ABAR CA fi ARCO N. WERE BEG. M4. IN THE MASSACRE. OF ‘48 SEP 6 1967 -COPRA WORKERS TN “ACAPULCO ON 22 “AUGUST  ohOL. IT IS DOUBTED ~ bn aes eT ree THAT: THE “ENCIDENT WILL: RESUPT IN THE SEMOVAL OF THE GOVERNOR g | CONFIDENTIAL NO FORETGN DISSEM 23 2 - | HW 50953 Docld:32301684 Page 2
UAISON Ste cay FBI Oo © TRCS~314/13191-67 co ‘PAGE2 OF 5 PAGES CONFID ENTIAL NO FOREIGN DISSEM 9 0 ee (elassification). . {dissem controls *, Botan ee gee WHO IS DESCRIBED AS A past- “MASTER AT CONCEALING HIS. INVOLVE- | MENT IN MURDERS, - BECAUSE THERE ‘IS NOT: ENOUGH “PUBLIC. EVIDENCE” AGAINST HIM, AND BOTH THE GOVERNOR AND FEDERAL, BEPUTY CESAR ‘DEL ANGEL FUENTES WILL PROBABLY BE ABSOLVED. oF CHARGES OF COMPLICITY IN ‘THE CRINE. END SUMMARY.) a 7 ree it 1. ON 32 august 1967, THAT GUERRERO GOVERNOR, RAIMUNDO ALAR CON was. INVOLVED. ‘IN THE MASSACRE OF. COPRA “workers !at ACAPULCO, GUERRERO, ON 28 fea can AUGUST. ROCHA- EXPLAINED THAT PROFESSIONAL GUNMEN WHO FIRED (ON THE COPRA WORKERS FROM THE UNIOW BUILDING WHICH THE COPRA. WORKERS SOUGHT TO ENTER INCL UD ED SIX PERSONS WHO SERVE AS ARMED ESCORTS FOR. ‘GOVERWOR ABARCA AND HIS AIDES, oo 7 QE, ET Boat. 2, C ALLY OW THE CASE AND HAD VERIFIED THAT THE GUNMEN WHO FIRED FROM THE UNION BUILDING WERE PROFESSIONALS KNOWN TO.BE IN THE Pay OF. Govek wor ABARGA, ON ‘ASPERMANENT: BASIS. ‘TO fit THAT ALL EVIDENCE, HE ‘Hap ‘SEEN TO DATE INDICATED THAT THE." KILL ING OF THE COPRA’ WORKERS waS THE ‘RESULT OF. THE GOVER WOR” Ss HAVING ‘SENT | CONFI D EN T. LAL ”~... NO FOREIGN. DISSEM a a p STATED THAT HE HAD CHECKED PERSON- es Ba . HY 50953 DBoctd: 32301604 Page 3
CC OeNe-E Ee DoE-NG TTA best) NO -FOREIGN DISSEM ow . \ : CY oe ; Ce 314/13191-67 PAGE 3 OF 5 PAGES CONFIDENTIAL NO FOREIGN DISSEM ° (classification) - caioveen, controls oa fant en OE has Sie aga es vai TPE a toma Sr aah a's Tantastic bi a aicabawth he pg Mate RL iy en RE eset ines Eig ain anneelel i aaah “HIS HIRED GUNMEN To DEFEND THE UNION BUILDING AND UNEON OFFICIALS WHEN WORD’ WAS RECEIVED THAT THE COPRA WORKERS WERE MARCHING ON ACAPULCO TO DEMAND AND END TO THE ILLEGAL’ LEVY WHICH THEY HAVE a BEEN FORCED TO PAY T0 UNION LEADERS AND THE GOVERNOR. { & NOTED THAT ALL’ MAJOR INDUSTRIAL, AND ORGANIZED AGRICULTURAL » AND MINING ENTERPRISES DELIVER ILLEGAL PAYMENTS TO THE GOVERNOR WITHOUT EQUIVOCATION, AND THAT IT Is MOST IMPROBABLE ‘THAT THE _ COPRA WORKERS WOULD EVER. HAVE CONSIDERED PROTESTING THEIR OWN F LEVY HAD THEY NOT BEEN INCITED TO DO SO BY CESAR venice . apenas eae be E XL EO eee FEDERAL DEPUTY FROM VERACRUZ. aT a IS, Je" THAT IT. WAS MOST UNLIKELY THAT THE ACAPULCO KILLINGS WOULD COST ABARCA THE: GOVER NORSHIP SINCE THERE Is Nor ENOUGH ” PUBLIC. EVIDENCE” OF ‘ABARCA’ S INVOLVEMENT | X= PLAINED THAT UNLESS EVIDENCE POSSESSED BY FEDERAL AUTHORITIES WERE. “PUBLISHED ,. PRESIDENT GUSTAVO DIAZ ORDAZ WOULD HAVE NO REASON TO’ ORDER ABARCA OUT OF: OFFICE; Braren ‘THAT ... a ABARCA WAS FULLY AWARE OF THE EXTENT OF THE GOVERNMENT'S IN- FORMATION ABOUT HIS INVOLVEMENT AND WAS WISELY PLAYING THE ROLE OF INNOCENT SCAPEGOAT. OFFERED THE: OPINION THAT THE ‘GOVERNMENT ’WOULD PLACE GREAT PRESSURE ‘ON CESAR DEL ANGEL ot :} ~ aor VOI | ; HY 50953 Daoctd:32301664 Page 4
" TDCS—314/ 1319 1-67 yO | PAGE 4 OF 5. PAGES | CONFIDENTIAL NO FOREIGN DISSEM | (classification) -(aissem controls) | TO CEASE HIS ACCUSATIONS ‘AGAINST ABAKGR, AND THAT tN MEER, BOTH ABARCA AND DEL ANGEL WOULD’ BE ABSOLVED ‘OF CHARGES OF | BEING AMONG THOSE PRIMARILY: RESPONSIBLE FOR” THE ACAPULCO ' “KILLINGS. ) ‘ Se ee es ffl rar st as wana to wot BEING im- . | PLICATED “IN “THE MURDER. OF AGAPULCO POLTICAL EEADER ALFREDO | | ; Morar ISNEROS,- ALTHOUGH: ‘IT WAS FAIRLY | Go oes ‘ : CERTAIN. THAT ‘Me GOVERNOR VAS" tvs. veD IN THAT | KILLING AS: WELL. eg THAT LOPEZ CI SNEROS HAD BECOME GREEDY FOR GRAFT AND HaD “TRESPASSED ON ‘THE GOVERNOR*S ‘OWN PRIVATE GRAFT PRESERVE, SO. THAT “THE GOVERNOR WaS FORCED TO ELIMINATE HIM WHEN BUSINESSMEN- PROTESTED THAT THEY WERE. BEING FORCED TO PaY GRAFT To Two‘ | MASTERS AND'WERE RECEIVING NO PROTECTION FROM THE GOVERNOR: | acconpine To [Panacea ‘IS (A PAST “MASTER | "AT: CONCEAL ING tits TRACES WHERE KIVLTNGS ‘ARE! “ENVOLVED 5 AND THE: PRESS “IS. NOT ‘EVEN © | | { : MENTIONING THE GOVERNOR'S? TyvoLVEMENT IN, % ‘PREVIOUS MASS-KIKL- oe ING EARLIER THIS YEAR. .(FLELD COMMENT? “IN MARCH 1967, THE. NATIONAL’ FARMERS" CONFEDERATION (CNG) ACCUSED GOVERNOR “AB'ARCA OF “ORDERING THERILLING OF TWESTY-FIVE PEASANTS “TW ‘SAW *ANTOWrO pO Dee “GND HIS FAMILYS "ON 3@ MARCH, THE CNG SUDDENLY ‘DROPPED ALLO me (CON PP DENT ATL. ~ NO° FORETEN’ DISSEM” | ‘f. ER IO'Y ei eapo ff HY 50953 DBoctd: 32301604 Page 5
Te caer eS ey SE Ee rae =p = pacoe TT ae Ve ° — . - x . a : e 7 “ ($s-314/153191-67 So . PAGE 5 OF 5 PAGES SC ONFIDEN TIAL NO FOREIGN DISSEM (classification) (dissem controls _ . ba . CHARGES AGAINST THE GOVER NOR: IN WHAT APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN A POLICICAL DEAL. BELGADO HAS BEEN IMPLICATED IN THE KILLING OF LOPEZ CISNEROS.) 5 (feo noes | ALLEGATIONS STATING THAT HE | | PER SO NALLY HAD SEEN EVIDENCE THAT GOVERNOR ABARCA WAS MORE RE- SPONSIBLE THAN ANYONE ELSE FOR THE CONSPIRACY TO KILL LOPEZ "CISNEROS AND FOR SEND ING GUNMEN TO THE ACAPULCO UNION HEADQUARTERS WHERE THE KILLING OF COPRA WORKERS TOOK PLACE. a 6. FIELD DISSEM: STATE ARMY NAVY AIR FBI CINCSO, REPORT CLASS CONFIDENTIAL NOFOREIGN DISSEM- fuente . »h- je v Ih ae HY 50953 DBoctd: 32301604 Page 6