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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that was being raised with the Special Group, particu- larly the concerns of Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs, Thomas Mann. In an apparent response to a question raised by Mann, Chief, WH Division, sent a note to Mann on 1 December 1960, in which it was stated: As one of the actions to be taken in response to the Presidential and Special Group Meetings, we would proceed to survey, construct, and man a staging and refueling facility at Puerto Cabezas. This ~ction is in accord with preliminary conversa- tions with President Somoza. There would at no time be a substantial force at the installation~ and no US personnel would be in the capital of the nation except one agency contract employee with ion: local experience, who would I I I Iby dealing with the Presl ent on thlS operation. The initial survey team of 5-men would fly into Puerto Cabezas on or about 7 Decem- ber. Subject to their findings it is ex- pected that such minimum airstrip repairs and construction of temporary buildings would be completed by 15 January [1961]. 22/ The Agency presumption that it had been acting in response to the directive of the President and the wishes of the Special Group, apparently met with oppo- sition from Mann; for in a handwritten note on a copy of the memorandum cited above, Dick Drain (Chief, WH/4/P&P) recorded:
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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.