The Mexican Intelligence Digital Archives (MIDAS)


 

 


 

MIDAS, the Mexican Intelligence Digital Archives (los Archivos del Autoritarismo Mexicano), is a crowd-sourced, public access digital archive of historical documents from Mexican intelligence agencies. The collection is drawn from Mexico’s two principal security services, the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS) and the Dirección General de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociales (DGIPS) and covers the period c.1940 to c.1985.

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Archivo de la Dirección Federal de Seguridad

Intelligence reports, briefs and analyses from the Dirección Federal de Seguridad, obtained by researchers from the Archivo General de la Nación between 2002 and 2015.


Archivo Sergio Aguayo

Intelligence reports, government correspondence and assorted media relating to social movements and the state security apparatus with particular reference to 1968, collected in the 2000s by historian and journalist Sergio Aguayo.


Documentos Mexicanos del National Security Archive

Intelligence reports, government correspondence and assorted media relating to social movements and the state security apparatus c.1968-c.1980, collected in the 2000s by the National Security Archive.