Two CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation [View all]

Source: Washington Post

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Two CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation

The U.S. spy agency has significantly expanded its international antidrug work under President Trump and CIA Director Ratcliffe.

April 21, 2026 at 8:40 a.m. EDT


Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks to reporters at a gathering of leftist leaders in Barcelona on Saturday. (Oscar Del Pozo/AFP/Getty Images)

By Warren P. Strobel and Ellen Nakashima

Two U.S. embassy officials who died in an automobile accident in northern Mexico as they returned from the scene of a counternarcotic operation worked for the Central Intelligence Agency as part of a significantly expanded role in battling narcotics trafficking in the Western Hemisphere, according to two people familiar with the matter.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/21/cia-mexico-accident-counter-narcotics/

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Some clarification is called for. It is not news that two U.S. embassy officials died in Mexico a few days back, and that Mexico had not known they were in the country. That's already appeared at DU.

Tue Apr 21, 2026, 06:56 AM
Mexico's Sheinbaum demands explanations after US Embassy officials die in Chihuahua
https://www.democraticunderground.com/113356489

What is news is that they were with the CIA.