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
TOP explains why he had come to the Agency with this partic- ular story rather than going to the Department. In any event, however, Chief, WH/4 ended his memorandum with the following suggestions: Action required: Exposure of the Trujillo offer to the DDP and or other interested parties and early advice to the Guatemalan Ambassador with simultaneous notification to I I of the answer given. Recommendation: That acceptance of assist- ance from Trujillo be given the greatest scrutiny. In the writer's judgment, ex- posure of Trujillo's assistance at this time could well swing increasing support to the United States in the wrong direc- tion. No serious consideration should, therefore, be given to this offer. 911 Except for the story of the retrograde and dis-. position of the materiel which will be discussed ln a later volume, this concludes the story of the Agency's policy I.'elated if not policy making -'-- contacts with the Government of Guatemala during the course of Project JMATE. Agency representatives rather than Department of State personnel dealt directly with the President of Guatemala and his closest associates over actions·which involved relationships with the United States Government and bore heavily on the formulation TOP
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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.