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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Al though he was IL ~ -----lin July of 1960, Lou Napoli was sent TOY to Managua to participate in a meeting between Agency representatives and the President of Nicaragua in September 1960. Accompanied by 1 _ Walter S. Holloway, the CIA representatives met with President Somoza on 17 and 19 September 1960. ~ The purpose of Napoli's TOY was to inform Somoza that the Frente Revolucionario Oemocratico (FRD) was the organ- ization of anti-Castro Cuban exiles which deserved the support of Somoza's government. This information for Somoza was in response to a question he had raised with Napoli in the previously mentioned June meeting. l! Somoza agreed that he would receive an FRD repre- sentative to discuss the situation and in addition indi- cated that he would make available a landing strip at Puerto Cabezas, a training site for about 100 men, and a shortwave radio station.* The Nicaraguan leader was not at all reluctant to raise pointed questions with * Th~ radio station, incidentally, that had been used during the course of operation PBSUCCESS which resulted in the ouster of the leftist Arbenz government in Guat- emala in 1958.
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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.