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 ,t:RET Part II Nicaragua A. Background Al though Project JMATE operations in Nicaragua were of considerably shorter duration than in Guatemala, there were many similarities in the degree to which CIA personnel were involved directly with the nation's Preside~t or his close personal staff on issues which were of direct importance to US foreign policy. This section therefore, focuses on the rela'tions between the Agency and President Luis Somoza Debayle. The internal situation in Nicaragua presented the Depart- ment of State with difficult choices. Somoza was an absolute dictator and, particularly after the 1960 election of John F. Kennedy, State was much concerned that, in appearance tit least, the abrazo for Somoza be formal rather than friendly, lest the US risk loss of support in the GAS and UN from the reputedly "demo- cratic" Central and South American nations. The Agency had no such problems -- it needed a base from which to mount air operations against Castro's Cuba; and the - 100 - TOP iRET
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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.