A Washington Post exclusive has added a highly sensitive twist to the deadly crash in northern Mexico that killed two U.S. Embassy officials and two Mexican investigators. Citing two people familiar with the matter, the Post reported that the two Americans who died in Chihuahua were CIA officers who had been involved in a counternarcotics mission tied to the dismantling of a major clandestine drug lab.
The accident of Sunday, April 19, was reported in Mexico as the aftermath of an operation linked to drug laboratories in the municipality of Morelos. Mexican authorities said the dead included the director of Chihuahua's State Investigation Agency and another officer.
