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NYT: The U.S. Gave Mexico a List of Russian Spies. Mexico Let Them Stay

The U.S. shared a list of over two dozen Russian spies posing as diplomats, but Mexico declined expulsions, later allowing U.S. vetting of some diplomatic applicants in 2023.

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When a U.S. general publicly declared that Mexico was a haven for Russian spies, Mexico’s president at the time dismissed it outright. “We don’t have information on this,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador told reporters the next day, in March 2022.

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The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) notified the Mexican government, then headed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of the presence of two dozen Russian spies, undercover as diplomats. However, Mexico refused to expel them from the country, according to a report by The New York Times. Mexico agreed in that to let U.S. officials speak out about Russians applying for diplomatic credentials, and have rejected some of them, according t…

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DNyuz broke the news in on Monday, December 8, 2025.
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