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Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation- Volume 2- Part 1

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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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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
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