Intelligence and Espionage

The New York Times reports that the CIA provided Mexico with a list of more than two dozen Russian intelligence officers posing as diplomats, but Mexican officials declined to expel them despite direct U.S. warnings to then‑President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. While Mexico agreed in 2023 to let U.S. officials weigh in on new Russian diplomatic credential applications—rejecting some—the Russian operatives already in country were allowed to remain even after Mexico’s presidential transition last fall, according to multiple current and former U.S. and Mexican officials.