Eclipse of the Assassins by Russell H. Bartley

Author:Russell H. Bartley
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780299306489
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2015-11-17T00:00:00+00:00

In early April 1993, Medvene sent us a packet of photocopied documents related to Harrison, including the DEA-6 debriefing reports we had unsuccessfully been seeking from the DEA and key court transcripts of Harrison’s testimony in the recently concluded Zuno trials. After reading this material, we shared our initial thoughts about Harrison with Medvene.

(1) Harrison was indeed “a strange duck,” as Medvene had described him in a previous phone conversation; his lack of a paper trail while at the University of California, Berkeley, suggested activities in preparation for “a deep-cover career in Mexico.”

(2) The year 1968 was a significant one for Harrison to begin his involvement in Mexico, given the global wave of student protests and the challenge Mexican students posed to that country’s government.

(3) The Autonomous University of Guadalajara (UAG) played an influential role in Mexican politics, and Harrison’s association with that institution was probably not coincidental.

(4) Cross-examination of Harrison during the Zuno trials regarding his testimony that he had not possessed a Mexican work permit while performing legal services for the PRI and, subsequently, while working as an electronics specialist, “was very much to the point.”

(5) It was inconceivable that, as a U.S. citizen, Harrison could have served as an agent of Mexico’s Interior Ministry “without an explicit understanding between the appropriate officials of both countries.” His involvement with Mexico’s national security apparatus, especially at the levels he indicated, was credible “only if he were a U.S. agent working in concert with Mexican counterparts.”

(6) Harrison’s electronics expertise and apparent familiarity with military weapons likewise pointed to an intelligence background.

(7) Harrison’s assertion that he conducted his investigation of the Buendía killing on his own initiative and for no one else was “simply not believable.”

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