Documents / FOIA release
This is Volume II, Part 1 of the CIA History Staff's Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation, a Top Secret history dated October 1979 and approved for release in July 2011. It looks at how the Agency took part in shaping US foreign policy toward Guatemala and Nicaragua during the anti-Castro program. It covers dealings with President Ydigoras Fuentes and Roberto Alejos, training sites such as Retalhuleu, cover stories, and negotiations with the Somoza brothers for an air base and port. It contains no UFO material.
“Jacobs”10 pages
Shortly, following the visit of Roberto Alejos to the Department of State, Carlos Alejos, the Arnbassa- dor of Guatemala to the United States, paid a formal calIon Secretary of State Rusk "mainly to get acquainted and to extend greetings personally and in behalf of Presi- dent Ydigoras." Wymberley Coerr, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for American Republic Affairs, who would re- place Thomas Mann, and Richard Godfrey, the Officer in charge of Guatemalan affairs, were also in attendance at this session, along with an interpreter. The Depart- ment of State Memorandum of Conversation is couched in the general platitudes of diplomatic language and while Alejos probably was hoping to get some support from the Department for the employment of the Cuban Brigade against Castro, nonesuch was forthcoming. What he got instead was'the "big picture" about developments of an inter- American, anti-Castro program from Secretary Rusk. One interesting comment which appeared in State's held with Kennedy. He said that he carne to \vashington at the request of President Ydigoras to discuss getting the B~igade out of Guatemala. 83/ Although this was of concern to Ydigoras, this was not the principal thrust of the letter which Alejos carried to Kennedy. Ydigoras's principal concern was whether the Brigade was in fact going to be employed in an attempt to oust Fidel Castro from Cuba. -,8:Jr.. TOP 7~RET
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 179 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.