MEXICO'S OUT TO TWIST WASHINGTON'S TAIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000403720053-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: September 16, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPEARED 16 September 1985
ON PAGLAL
Mexico's out to twist Washington's tail
A MAJOR rift is developing
between the U.B. and Mex-
ico over that country's deci-
sion to invite a Soviet naval
task force - carrying nu-
clear weapons - to pay a
will be ? headed toward
Veracruz, in the Gulf of
Mexico, and also have been
invited to stop over in Tam-
pico - 800 miles from
Brownsville, Texas.
It's the first time the
Soviet navy has been in-
vited to visit Mexico and it
represents a new phase in
the cat-and-mouse games
waged by the Kremlin to
test U.S. resolve.
White House and Penta.
gon officials are outraged
at the Mexican government
- especially after learning
that the visit was engi.
neered by the Sandintst
government of Nicaragua.
Mexico has bitterly op-
posed U.S. policy in Nicara-
gua and recently moved to
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improve diplomatic ties
with the Sandinistas.
The decision to invite the
Soviets is seen- in Washington
as an attempt by the Mexican
government to "thumb their
"at the U.H.
Insiders view the Krem-
lin's acceptance as part of
its strategy to embarrass
President Reagan and gain
leverage at the November
summit in Geneva.
It remains unclear how
the White House will re-
spond.
U.S. officials say the deci-
sion violates the 1967 Treaty
of Tlateloloo, signed by 14
Latin American nations,
which bars "any form of po-
session in Central America.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000403720053-1