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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movement; and the situation in Nicaragua was consist- ently introduced as a part of that on-going prob1em. D. Qualms at High Levels With reference to the use or non-use of the Nicaraguan base -- a question which was still unanswered at the turn of the year -- Tom Mann was looked on as the villain in the piece by the Agency's representatives. In preparing material for the DCI to use at a high level meeting, Tracy Barnes indicated that Mann would probably oppose the use of the Nicaraguan strike base. Barnes argues that Mann would reason that since the operation was essentially one backed by the United States Government, the attempt to establish a covert Agency operated base was improper. The united States Government should openly admit its anti-Castro posture, for continuation of the attempt to maintain covert activities in Nicaragua and Guatemala would (in Mann's thinking according to Barnes) jeopardize the already somewhat shaky governments of Ydigoras and Somoza. 35/ In his memorandum noting Mann's position, Barnes chose to ignore, or at least to pass over, the merits of overt US intervention. Instead of" looking at the
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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.