Two U.S. officials killed in a vehicle crash as they returned from destroying a clandestine drug lab in northern Mexico over the weekend were working for the CIA.

Two alleged agents of the CIA died earlier this month in an accident in Chihuahua, a border state in northwestern Mexico / Reuters Mexico’s attorney general’s office on Tuesday announced a full investigation into two US CIA agents,

Washington has made clear there will be no explanations, let alone apologies, after two CIA agents died in a road accident in Chihuahua during an operation kept secret from the Mexican government.

A vehicle crash killed two Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officials en route from destroying a drug lab in northern Chihuahua, Mexico, on Sunday, sources told The Associated Press. Three people who spoke to the AP on Tuesday on the condition of anonymity confirmed the CIA’s involvement.

Mexico's president orders an investigation after a crash killed two U.S. officials and two Mexican officials linked to a clandestine drug lab operation.

One of two CIA employees killed in a car crash following a clandestine counter-narcotics raid in the mountains of Mexico earlier this week grew up in Spokane. John D. Black, 43, died early

The two US embassy officials who died in a car accident in Mexico on Sunday worked for the CIA and had been collaborating with Mexican officials on expanded counternarcotics operations in the country,

To the specter of American interference in Mexican affairs is now added a US campaign against alleged ties between Mexican officials and organized crime