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.
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TOP IRET pointed to an unidentified Agency contact who was keeping him fully posted on the Agency's operations. As revealed in the cable traffic, Muccio participated in various of the operations related to Project JMATE both before and after the fact. Some of Muccio's remarks in the JFK Library interview may have been the reflection of interviewer biases, but they also indicated that Muccio was trying to avoid any tie-in with the "bad guys" of CIA.* * The question of interviewer bias, for example, shows through in the following comment made at one point: "The whole ineptitude of the [Bay of Pigs] operation is amazing, not only what you [Muccio] are talking about now, but I was struck by the simple tactics at the beach. It was just incredible to me that it could have been done that way, but that's an aside, my opinion." With this kind of "an aside" could the interviewee not have detected a bias of the interviewer?
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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.