The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) refuses to acknowledge its involvement in a Top Secret U.S. intelligence facility in Mexico City, despite previously declassified information describing its role. The NSA issued the “Glomar” denial in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request we filed last year. The agency did so even after we … Continue reading
Top Secret Facility Barred Mexicans, Focused on “High Value Targeting” National Security Agency (NSA) personnel rotated in and out of a U.S.-operated “Mexico Fusion Center” located inside the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City and provided additional analytic support to the secret intelligence facility’s “high value targeting” mission, according to a 2010 Defense Department (DOD) memorandum obtained … Continue reading
This morning, Carmen Aristegui of Noticias MVS in Mexico essentially live-tweeted a story about the Napolitano briefing papers we published yesterday. These documents included a bullet point indicating that Mexico wanted to “put to bed” issues stemming from leaked documents on U.S. spy operations in Mexico. You can read the documents in our original post … Continue reading
This post was co-authored by Michael Evans and Jesse Franzblau. Just three months ago, Mexico wanted to “put to bed” bilateral tensions arising from the leak of sensitive intelligence information indicating that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) spied on Mexican citizens. The new information was discovered by the non-governmental National Security Archive among a set of … Continue reading
Migration Declassified 