FIT TO PRINT?, Complied by Jeff Gillenkirk


Complete list of sources, in order of appearance, for Dec. 29, 1997 New York Times article, "U.S Helps Mexico's Army Take a Big Anti-Drug Role," by Tim Golden:

United States and Mexican officials

United States officials

Two people who have seen draft versions of the assessment

Clinton Administration officials

Many officials

A former senior official who was involved in American policy in Mexico

Some officials

A few other current and former United States officials

American officials

Many American officials

A senior American official

A senior drug-enforcement official

Pentagon spokesman, Kenneth H. Bacon

James R. Jones, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico

American officials

American agents

Current and former officials

Two former officials

A former official

Former officials

United States officials

Current and former American officials

United States officials

One of Mr. Zedillo's closest aides

Mexican and United States military officials

A Pentagon official

Defense Department officials

Mexican and United States military officials

American officials

Officials

Several American officials

Officials familiar with the operations of the intelligence team

Officials

Officials

Some Mexican police investigators

American officials

A former intelligence official

Mexican Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Juan

Heriberto Salinas Altes

Clinton Administration officials

Mexican officials

Defense Department officials

Many United States officials

Clinton Administration officials

United States officials

Officials familiar with American intelligence reports

Two American officials

United States officials

Gen. Tomas Angeles Dauahare, a senior aide to Mexico's Defense Minister

One current and one former American official

Of the total of 62 sources mentioned, 61 are identified as U.S. or Mexican government, military, or intelligence sources. Fifty-eight of the 62 sources mentioned are unnamed.

Jeff Gillenkirk is a member of Media Alliance's Latin America/Caribbean Basin Committee and an associate of VoxPop, a strategic media and communications firm based in San Francisco. You can contact him at Voxpop@igc.org.

Source: Media File, Volume 17 #2, Mar-Apr 1998