The conspiracy

National He was lover of the reflectors, imprevisible, and non reflexive: ambassador Jova Former Presidente LEA By: Carlos Damian April 13, 2013 Their aspirations of heading the UN, were not very welcomes México. - Although in the places closed and secrets stores of the Central Agency of Intelligence (CIA), there were evidences that the former president Luis Echeverria Alvarez (LEA) was one of their agents and that it collaborated as informant of high level being secretary of Government, and even leader, in the offices of the American diplomatic service never enjoyed any appreciation. Although “we are thinking an unthinkable thing". Ambassador Joseph John Jova entitled this way the report of State August of 1976, 6 of this 37 years ago where one still had secretary Henry Kissinger. It alerted: "they grow the rumors that the president LEA could be conspiring to murder the elect president José Lopez Portillo to be able to extend her period in the power." "Its form of reacting before the crisis is spontaneous, impetuousness with tendency to act first and to meditate later. As international statesman, it is not very sophisticated it spreads to simplify of more ". This is the opinion that the ambassador from The States in Mexico, John Jova has on August 1st, of 1975. He approached the end of the six years of the president of the ‘lightweight jacket’ that registered the rhetoric of the Third World but it also drove the ‘dirty war’ against the lefts and the armed movements of the time. Unwilling to lose the control LEA - Litempo 8, according to the denomination that he received inside the CIA. - it threw anything discreet campaign in the international atmospheres to promote their candidacy to the general secretariat of the Organization of United Nations (UN), competing with the Austrian of Nazi past Kurt Waldheim. But already with Jose Lopez Portillo in Los Pinos residence, the only thing that achieved was an appointment like ambassador in the Fiji Islands. The reasons of the brutal fall are without a doubt to the economic trips, its terrible relationship with the private initiative and the form so aggressive with which wanted to suffocate the guerrillas of the time they shrank the great capital of authoritarian power that had kneaded Mr. President. But, among other factors, it also contributed to bury their dreams of greatness, dedicated to that Henry Kissinger's office “evaluates and decide the tactics to continue” in front of the relief in the UN. This report is one of the little one more than 2 thousand 500 reports that they were sent starting from 1973, and it is part of a package that is part of the Public Library of the Diplomacy of The States, the Plus D. This package starting from Monday 8 of April. LEA was messianic, megalomaniac and naïve The department of State just in case was considering the pronouncements to favor or against the support to LEA to direct the UN. This information of the embassy was dissuasive for the White House: "As international statesman, LEA it lacks sophistication, it spreads to the simplification. It considers that the Council of Security is an obstacle for the General Assembly… He considers that the Letter of Rights and Duties of the States are a panacea for all the wrongs. It has very firm ideas, but naive (ingenuous) about the disarmament". For if it was little these adverse ideas to the president, Jova proceeds “to modernize”, as he says, the abundant biographical information that Washington already has about LEA: "From their ascent to the presidency has been accentuated a megalomania touch and the messianic feature of its personality has probably increased". It is analyzed as a man with excessive trust in itself, “difficult of being advised" that doesn't usually assist its secretary's opinions of Foreigner Relationships (Emilio Rabasa) neither of the experts in international politics and economy of its bureau, but rather he leans to listen not very prepared near people's advice, especially its wife Esther Zuno. These previous demarcations are what ambassador Jova thinks on the personality and facts of he LEA around 1975. In the fact convulses had lapsed years of 1973 and 1974, with their waves of explosions, kidnappings, attacks and murders. In that time they were active the urban and rural guerillas, but also squadrons of paramilitary, the ultra-right groups (as the MURO, antecedent of YUNQUE) and the agents of the Federal Direction of Security with their out of the law executions, their jails and secret and missing graves. These last facts that marked the time apparently don't worry the American diplomats for who the families that looked for their political prisoners in the Military Area number one and the corps in the guerrilla in strange “confrontations with criminals and they are not reasons it is not even of being mentioned. The denomination "human rights” were something that was not used. The student protest of the 71 This rude thought that Jova has about LEA, they had already happened the American consul's kidnappings in Guadalajara Terrence Leonhardy (April 4, 1973), that of the father-in-law of LEA, Jose Guadalupe Zuno, of which Jova reported September 10 that it was “maybe of the own family; those of the director of the airport Julio Hirschfeld, and the rector of the Autonomous University of Guerrero, Jaime Castrejon (1971), and the murders, in bankrupt suppositions of kidnapping, of the industrial Eugenio Garza Sada and Luis Fernando Aranguren, and of the British honorary consul Anthony Duncan (1973). But an incident that soured the bilateral relationship notably had also taken place. The convulse year 1974 finished wrong for LEA, with the first journalistic reviews that began to circulate on the book of an agent of the CIA, that had deserted not very before, Phillip Agee, 'Inside the company, newspaper of the CIA'. From the first lines of this work that almost four decades later it continues being a reference it is informed those two Latin American presidents. LEA and Alfonso Lopez Michelsen (of Colombia) they were agents in the payroll of the agency. Jova receives instructions of Washington that, in the event of being approached on the topic, repeat the formula used in those cases: "Non comments". Worse the certain thing is that starting from being exposed of this form like informant of the CIA, LEA changes the old formula from 1968 until then, of accusing to “extra-national interests and exotic forces" - you read Soviet and Cuban embassy - and to manipulate the youths, to condemn the interference of the " imperialism " in the popular movement in its against that it begins to recover land after the repressive blows of October 2, 1968 and June 10, 1971. The fifth year of presidential term always problematic for the tenant of Los Pinos residence, March 14, 1975 LEA went to the UNAM, to the Department of Medicine, for an encounter with students, with the intention of demonstrating that the wounds of Tlatelolco and San Cosme were closed. It was not this way. They screamed him, they insulted him and they threw a currency to the head. LEA infuriates, it gesticulates and it screams in the Salvador Allende auditory, and he says that the furious youths “are manipulated by the CIA". When writing a chronicle on the incident, Jova March 15, he says: "We don't know if the president was not well advised or he preferred to ignore advice of not going to the campus (…), the fact is that an adverse climate persists among the student body… We believe that the president put on in a great risk, given the radicalism of the student movement". The ambassador adds: "To associate these opponents with the CIA is an action of the government's reflection that equal usually accuses to the left-wing that to the right-wing". (La Jornada, política, p. 20, April 12, 2013).