Anonymous ID: 8e3783 March 30, 2021, 3:30 p.m. No.13332202   🗄️.is đź”—kun

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974MEXICO05352_b.html

Date: 1974 June 25, 17:36 (Tuesday)

 

COMMITTEE FOR OPEN SOCIETY LETTER (1974)

 

…THERE HAS BEEN NO EDITORIAL COMMENT ON BRACERO ISSUE RELATED TO RECENT FONSEC NOTE SINCE THAT REPORTED REFTEL. MEXICO CITY PRESS, HOWEVER, GENERALLY GAVE FRONT-PAGE COVERAGE TO EFE DESPATCH ON JUNE 23 AND 24 ON REPORTED LETTER FROM WILLIAM HIGGS OF COMMITTEE FOR AN OPEN SOCIETY TO SECRETARY KISSINGER ON BRACERO ISSUE. PRESS REPORTS CITE HIGGS' CHARGES THAT DOOR-TO-DOOR "MANHUNT" BEING CARRIED OUT IN WASHINGTON AGAINST MEXICAN ILLEGALS. LETTER CHARGES HUNT IS WITHOUT "JUDICIAL AUTHORITY"…

 

…HIGGS' POINT OF VIEW SEEMS FAR CLOSER TO THAT OF MEXICAN GROUPS OR GOM THAN OF ANY DOMESTIC U.S. ORGANIZATION… EMBASSY WOULD APPRECIATE TEXT OF LATEST HIGGS LETTER AS WELL AS ANY BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON NATURE AND SUPPORT OF COMMITTEE FOR OPEN SOCIETY…

 

>Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974, less than two months after this cable…

>"Open Society"