Mexico's government says two CIA agents killed in a car crash in Chihuahua last weekend were not authorized to conduct operations there, though they were returning from a drug lab destruction. The statement creates a legal cover—Mexican law prohibits foreign agents from operating on its soil—but contradicts President Sheinbaum's own admission that Mexican federal forces were involved in the operation. The deaths raise questions about the scope of covert US-Mexico security cooperation and whether Mexico's government controls what happens on its territory or is discovering operations after the fact.