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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During the course of the operation [of the air base at Puerto Cabezas] I had one security officer '" He came up to me quite concerned ... He said, "We 1 ve got a bunch of Nicaraguans who are ... in our secure area ... What 1 11 I do?" ... I looked out '.' Christ Al- mighty! They were all generals and were led by [General] Somoza ... I said, "It 1 s their country, you had better let them come in." So they carne in and we gave them a general briefing ... But Somoza was concerned ." His concern was the United States willingness to follow through. Garfield M. Thorsrud to Jack B. Pfeiffer 6 February 1976 -991 TOP S,RET
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 179 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.