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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Later that morning [2 December 1960], Devine called C/WH to say that Mann had referred the matter to [tivingston] Merchant and felt there had been no Special Group discussion or decision underlying the Nicaragua proposal. I called ADD/A who (after speaking w/C/WH) called Joe Scott to see where we stood. Scott said Merchant felt this was a matter for secretarial review. For this review, State would need more detail. Barnes undertook to provide same. Used [Thomas A.] Parrot to inform [Gordon] Gray and DOD and himself inform DCI. 23/* In order to insure that the Special Group was p~operly notified, WH/4 prepared a memorandum on Nica- raguan aspects of the Cuban operation on 3 December 1960, and on 6 December 1960 another memorandum was prepared concerning several problems, among which was included that of the Nicaraguan strike base. These materials were forwarded for use at the Special Group meeting of 8 December 1960. 24/\ Although formal sanction for his mission was still being debated, Robertson departed for Nicaragua * Mr. Merchant was Under Secretary of State for Polit- ical Affairs, and Joseph W. Scott was his Special Assi~tant. Thomas A. Parrot served as Executive Sec- retary for the Special Group 5412, and Gordon Gray was President Eisenhower's National Security Adviser. - 116 - TO~CRET
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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.