RESIGNATION OR FIRING OF MEXICAN AMBASSADOR TO INDIA OCTAVIO PAZ.
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: WITHHELD
Document date: 10/24/1968
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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RESIGNATION

RO FIRINGSO LEXICAN AMBASSADOR

IO MEDIA OCTAVIO PAZ"HAS RECEIVED PROMINENT FRONT PAGE

TREATHENT IN MEXIÇO CITY PRESS, WITH CHARGES AND COUNTER-

CHARGES BETWEEN PAZ AND FOREION OFFICE OM WHETHER HE

BOT FIRED COR RESIGNED) AND WHY, FOEIGN OFFICE CLAIMES,

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RAZ MADE STATEMENTS BASED ON INACCURATÉ PRESS REPORTS

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VITHOUT ASKINGOR WAITING FOR FORGEOM OFFICE

CORRESPONDENCE, BUT NO RPT MO REPERODUCTION OF PAZ

ALLEGEDLY INAPPROPRIATE STATEMEHTS HAS APPEARED IN

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MEXICAN PRESS. THE REAL REASON FOR PAZ, RESIGNATION

RO FIRINGS IS THERFORE STILL NOT CLEAR.

Z. ADDING FUEL TO FIRE, PAZY DAUGHTER HELEMA PAZ

BARRO, WHO IS CONPLETELY DOMINANED BY HER MOLHER CA

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LEADING MEXICAN PLAYURIGHTE ELENA REARROS, PUBLISHED AN

OPEN LETTER TO HER FATHER RESTATING HER MOTHER'S.

PREVIOUS PUBLIC CHARGES THAT STUDENT CRISIS HERE IS

RESULT OF CONSPIRACY IN WHICH VELL-KNOWN REXICAN

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LEFTIST INTELLECTUALS HAVE PLAYED LEADING ROLE. HOT

•RPT NOT AT ALL GLEAR WHAT RELATIONSHIP PAZ' REMOVAL

FROM KEY DELHI MAS WITH ELENA GARRO'S CHARGES AGÄINST

LEFTIST INTELLECTUALS (SHE INCLUDED VELL-KNOW WON-

COMMUÑIST WRITERS e EDUCATORS ARD SCIENTISTS) BUT END

RESULT IS THAT ELENA GARRO, THROUGH HER DAUGHTER, IS

EXPLOITINO OCTAVIO PAZ' REMOVAL TO CONTINUE HER OWN

ONE-MORAN CAMPAIGN AGAINST PROMINENT MEMBERS OF

INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITY: THIS MIGHT SUPPLY GOVERHEUT

WITH PEE, ÉHOULD IT DECIDE TO DO SO, FOR GRAGKING

ON INTELLECTUALS, THROWING IN COMHUHISTS AND

NON-COMMUNISTS TOGETHER, WHICH WOULD SIMPLY MUDDY

WATERS EVEN MORE ON WHO ARE PRINGIPAL PROMOTERS UND

FINANCERS) OF STUDENT CRISIS.

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IN VIEW OF ABOVE, WOULD APPRECIATE IF STATION

REW DELHI COULD CABLE ANY PUBLISHED STATEMENTS BY

OCTAVIO PAZ THAT MIGHT SHED LIGHT OU REAL CAUSE. OF HIS

RESIGHATION (OR DISMISSAL). PYI, PAZ CONTINUES TO ENJOY

REPUTATION AS ONE OF TOP MEXICAN INTELLECTUALS NERE.

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