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.
Completely ignoring the issue of authorization for use of Puerto Cabezas or the question of permlsSlon for airstrikes which had previously been brought to his attention, Barnes chose to focus on the economics and the potential loss of US inventories which might be moved into Puerto Cabezas and lost -- that is, appro- priated by Somoza -- if the decision should be made either to move the training activity to United States bases and/or to back off from the use of the Nicaraguan air base. What motivated Barnes to suggest this approach is unknown; and in view of the real problems requiring decisions it was a unbelievable performance. Even as the Agency ~as seeking policy guidance with respect to utilization of Puerto Cabezas, Robert- son alerted Headquarters that the Nicaraguan situation would soon be complicated by requests from the Govern- ment of Nicaragua for a $(US) 2 million loan to rebuild motor and railroads which had recently been flooded -- a request which the Nicaraguan Ambassador Oscar Sevilla- Sacasa would present to the Department of State. In addition, a Development Loan fund of $(US) 8 million was also pending. 41/ When General Anastasio Somoza - 125 - TOP~RET
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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.