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 S~ET representatives had been cleared by Napoli with the US Ambassador to Nicaragua, Thomas Whelan; and, in addition, WH/4 had advised Frank Devine of the Depart- ment of State of the trip and Col. King had informed Thomas Mann. 9/*. In a meeting with the leader of the survey team (Napoli) on 14 Oct 60, Somoza agreed, among other things, that the airstrip area could be isolated for the exclu- \ sive use of the Agency. Somoza would provide a guard force, construction of some temporary housing for per- sonnel at the base would be permitted, and initially he would help out with the transportation and supplies for repairing the airstrip. He agreed to the use of a practice bombing range on a nearby lagoon about 10 miles south of Puerto Cabezas; he agreed to the use of Puerto Cabezas as a strike base for attacks on Cuba; and he also agreed to permit the exile air force to \ use the Nicaraguan Air Force insignia during any in- ternal flights. It also was apparent that at least * Mr. Mann was Assistant Secertary of State for Inter- American Affairs and Mr. Devine was Special Assistant to Mr. Mann.
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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.