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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two US companies located in the Puerto Cabezas area
would play significant roles in the Agency's plans for
Puerto Cabezas. Facilities of the Nicaraguan Long
Leaf Pine Company {NIPCO}, a lumber company controlling
the terminal facilities, and the Standard Fruit Company,
controlling the rail line and the docking facility,
were critical to both planned air and maritime opera-
tions. 10/
In return for his support, Somoza wanted assurance
that once action against Castro started, there would
be no backing down by the USG; and he also wanted to
be sure that the proper levels of the US Government
were sanctioning the activities of the survey team.
When he was told that the US Ambassador was thoroughly
familiar with and involved in the planning, he was
somewhat mollified; but he did raise the question of
wanting a contact to whom he could turn if he believed\
that the ·operation was not going as it should -- or
if he had complaints or suggestions to offer. Somoza
was told in this connection that the best thing he
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could do would be to go to Holloway. As before, Napoli
made clear that these talks were exploratory and that
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 179 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.