About "Our Man in Mexico"

This blog discusses my book "Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA" which tells the story of the CIA's top spy in Mexico in the 1960s.

It is also the story of how Scott's son, Michael, a filmmaker in Los Angeles, spent decades trying to uncover the true story of his father's life.

In a larger sense it is about the rise of the Central Intelligence Agency as a force in the world, not as the CIA wishes the story to be told but rather what the first 25 years of the Agency looked like through the eyes of one of its most respected officers.

It contains a wealth of historical revelations about Soviet spy Kim Philby, about the CIA' s legendary counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton (who was good friends with Scott), about Scott's surveillance of accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, about Scott's recruitment of three Mexican presidents as paid CIA agents, and about the Agency's efforts, largely successful, to suppress an unpublished memoir that Scott wrote about his brilliant career.