Editing David Atlee Phillips (section)

===Mexico City Station Chief (1961–1965)===
As deputy chief and later chief of the CIA’s Mexico City station, Phillips monitored Soviet and Cuban activities, overseeing surveillance of embassies and operatives like Lee Harvey Oswald, who visited in September 1963. His tenure coincided with the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), where he provided critical intelligence. Phillips’s handling of Oswald’s contacts, detailed in The Night Watch, has fueled conspiracy theories about his role in Kennedy’s assassination. Phillips denied such claims, testifying before the HSCA in 1976.