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From: CIA
Document date: 09/02/1967
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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09/02/1967

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POLIT MATTERS, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS,

ENVOLVEMENT, PUBLIC EVIDENCE, ACAPULCO KILLINGS

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Confidential

RESTRICTIONS : 1B

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 04/30/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA

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STATE/INR

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Intertigence Information Cable:

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the National Defense of the United States within the meantng of

the Espionage Laws, Title 18,

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prohibited

GROUP

Excluded from automatic

downgrading and

declassification

NO FOREIGN DISSEM

CONFIDENTIAL

THIS IS AN INFORMATION REPORT. NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE.

CITE TDCS-314/13191-67

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Blitical 1712010.2

COUNTRY:

MEXICO

DOI

30 AUGUST 1967

DIST

2 SEPTEMBER 1967

ALL FBI INFORMATION CONTAINED

DATE 9-18-958Y 56 6 8.510

SUBJECT:

V..

VIEWS OF MEXICO CITY POLICE OFFICIALS ON

OF GOVERNOR OF GUERRERO IN MASSACRE OF COPRA WORKERS

• MEXICO,

MEXICO CIIY (1 SEPTEMBER 1967) FIELD REPORT

NO • HMM 11, 303

SOUR CE

REPUTABLE MEXICAN JOURNALIST WITH WELL-ESTABLISHED

CONTACIS IN JOURNALISTIC, GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR

RELEASE OF CIA INFORIMATION

IN THIS DOCUMENT AS SANITIZED

CIRCLES IN MEXICO, HE HAS BEEN A RELIABLE; THOUGH

INFREQUENI, REPORTER FOR MANY YEARS. HE ACQUIRED

THE INFORMATION IN THIS REPORT

FROM THE IWO POLICE

K10/97

KP 1-14-98

OFFICIALS NAMED BELOW.]G)

& SUMMARY*

TWO MEXICO CITY POLICE OFFICIALS REPORT, ON THE

BASIS OF EVIDENCE SEEN BY THEM PERSONALLY, IHAT PROFESSIONAL

GUNMEN EMPLOYED ON A PERMANENT BASIS EX GUERRERO GOVERNOR? 9!

RAIMUNDO ABARCA ALARCON WERE INVOLVED IN THE MASSACRE: OF

COPRA WORKERS IN ACAPULCO ON 20 AUGUST 19691

18.55P 6,

DOUBTED

THAT THE INCIDENT WILL RESULT IN THE REMOVAL OF THE GOVERNOR,

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LIAISON SEI ON, FBI

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_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 DEPUTY CESAR

DEL ANGEL FUENTES WILL PROBABLY BE ABSOLVED. OF CHÄRGES OF

COMPLICITY IN THE CRIME.

END SUMMARY.

1. ON 30 AUGUSI 1967, RAFAEL

MOCHA WORDERO,

COMMANDANT

OF AGENTS OF THE SECRET SERVICE OF THE TEDERAL DUSTRICT ESTATED

THAT GUERRERO GOVERNOR, RAIMUNDO ABARCA ALARCON.

SWAS INVOLVED

IN THE MASSACRE OF COPRA WORKERS AI ACAPULCO, GUERRERO, ON 2D

AUGUST. ROCHA: EXPLAINED THAI PROFESSIONAL GUNMEN WHO FIRED

ON THE COPRA WORKERS FROM THE UNION BÜILDING WHICH THE COPRA

WORKERS SOUGHT TO ENTER INCLUDED SIX PERSONS WHO SERVE AS ARMED

ESCORIS FOR GOVERNOR ABARCA AND HIS AIDES.

11101.07

JORGE DAVE GONZALEZ, CHIEF OF THE SIXIN INVESTIGATiVE

GROUP OF THE SECRET SERVICE STATED THAT HE HAD CHECKED PERSON-

ALLY ON THE CASE AND HAD VERIFIED THAT THE GUNMEN: WHO FIRED

FROM THE UNION BUILDING WERE PROFESSIONALS KNOWN TO BE IN THE

PAY OF GOVERNOR ABARCA ON A PERMANENT BASIS. (UDAVE ADDED THAT

ALL EVIDENCE HE HAD SEEN TO DATE INDICATED. THAT IHE : KILLING OF

THE COPRA WORKERS WAS

THE RESULT OF THE GOVERNOR'S HAVING SENI

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HIS HIRED GUNMEN TO DEFEND THE UNION BUILDING AND UNION OFFICIALS

WHEN WORD WAS RECEIVED THAI THE COPRA WORKERS WERE MARCHING ON

AÇAPULCO TO DEMAND AND END TO THE ILLEGAL LEVY WHICH THEY HAVE

BEEN FORCED TO PAY IO UNION LEADERS AND THE GOVERNOR. (UDAVE]C)

NOTED THAI ALL MAJOR INDUSTRIAL, AND ORGANIZED AGRICULTURAL

AND MINING ENTERPRISES DELIVER ILLEGAL PAYMENIS IO IHE GOVERNOR

WITHOUT EQUIVOCATION, AND THAT IT IS MOST IMPROBABLE THAT THE

COPRA WORKERS WOULD EVER HAVE CONSIDERED PROTESTING THEIR OWN

LÉVY. HAD THEY NOI BEEN INCITED IO DO SO BY CESAR DELIANGEL.

FUENTES, FEDERAL DEPUTY FROM VERACRUZ.

3.

ROCHA!

STATED THAT IT WAS MOST UNLIKELY THAI THE ACAPULCO

KILLINGS WOULD COST ABARCA THE GOVERNORSHIP SINCE THERE IS NOT

ENOUGH "PUBLIC EVIDENCE" OF ABARCA'S INVOLVEMENI. ROCHA EX-

PLAINED THAT UNLESS EVIDENCE POSSESSED BY FEDERAL AUTHORITIES

WERE PUBLISHED, PRESIDENT GUSTAVO DIAZ ORDAZ WOULD HAVE

NO

TEASCU TO ORDEN ABARCA OUT OF DIFIGE: ROCHOESTATER THAT

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. [ROCHA OFFERED THE OPINION THAT

THE GOVERNMENT WOULD PLACE GREAT PRESSURE ON CESAR DEL ANGEL

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• TO CEASE HIS ACCUSATIONS AGAINST ABARCA, AND THAT IN HE END,

BOTH ABARCA AND DEL ANGEL WOULD BE ABSOLVED OF CHARGES OF E

BEING AMONG THOSE PRIMARILY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACAPULCO

KILLINGS®

UDAVE NOTED THAT ABARCA HAD MANAGED TO AVOID BEING IM

PLICATED IN THE MÚRDER OF ACAPULCO POLIICAL LEÄDER, ALFREDO

ALOPEZ

ISNEROS, ALTHOUGH IT WAS FAIRLY

CERTAIN THAT THE GOVERNOR WAS INVOLVED IN THAT KILLING AS WELL:

[UDAVE SAID THAT LOPEZ CISNEROS HAD BECOME GREEDY FOR GRAFT AND

HAD TRESPASSED ON THE GOVERNOR'S OWN PRIVATE GRAFI 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:

ACCORDING TO DAVE

ABARCA IS A PAST-MASTER AT CONCEALING HIS

TRACES WHERE KILLINGS ARE INVOLVED, AND THE PRESS IS NOT EVEN

MENTIONING THE GOVERNOR!SS INVOLVEMENT IN A PREVIOUS MASS KILL -

ING EARLIER THIS YEAR. FIELD COMMENTS IN MARCH 1967, THE

NATIONAL FARMERS• CONFEDERATION CONCY ACCUSED GOVERNOR ABARCA

OF ORDERING THEKILLING OF TWENTY-FIVE PEASANTS IN SAN ANTONIO

DE LAS TEJAS BYRURAL GUARDS HEADED BY ELEUTERIO PELGADO ALTO TE

TAND HIS FAMILY, ON 30 MARCH, THE CNE SUDDENLY DROPPED ALL

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CHARGES AGAINST THE GOVERNOR IN WHAT APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN A

POLICICAL DEAL• BELGADO HAS BEEN IMPLICATED IN THE KILLING

OF LOPEZ CISNEROS.

ROCHA SECONDED [UDAVE

S ALLEGATIONS STATING IHAI HE

PERSONALLY HAD SEEN EVIDENCE THAT GOVERNOR ABARCA WAS MORE RE-

SPONSIBLE THAN ANYONE ELSE FOR THE CONSPIRACY TO KILL LOPEZ

CI,SNEROS AND FOR SENDING GUNMEN TO THE ACAPULCO UNION HEADQUARTERS

WHERE THE KILLING OF COPRA WORKERS TOOK PLACE.

6. FIELD DISSEM: STATE ARMY NAVY AIR FBI CINCSO.

REPORT CLASS CONFIDENTIAL NOFOREIGN DISSEM •

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