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Americans Shot in Mexico Were CIA Operatives Aiding in Drug War

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08.29.2012 at 02:40am

More on Mexico's Federal Police firing on a US Embassy vehicle via the New York Times.

The two Americans who were wounded when gunmen fired on an American Embassy vehicle last week were Central Intelligence Agency employees sent as part of a multiagency effort to bolster Mexican efforts to fight drug traffickers, officials said on Tuesday…

The CIA declined to comment. But American officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release information, said no evidence had emerged so far that the Americans were targeted because of their affiliation…

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