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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TOP SftRET President Somoza's brother -- came to the United States to attend the Kennedy inauguration, he also met with Allen Dulles to discuss the problem of JMTIDE and of continued US support for Nicaragua. At the same time, the General ,also pressed the DCI for assistance in obtaining the loans that were just mentioned. The DCI however pointed Somoza toward the Department of State, suggesting that Assistant Secretary Thomas Mann was the logical contact for discussing loans. 42/ The question of the quid-pro-quo of loans for Nicaragua in return for the utilization of Puerto Cabezas continued through February, with the Chief WH/4 and the Chief, WH Division both playing active roles in attempting to get a commitment from State for the $2 million loan -- and State support for the $8 million World Bank loan. 43/ On the'last day of February 1961, a proposal from Chief, Western Hemisphere Division to the DCI suggesting that the DDP, the DDCI, or the DCI "press the Department of State for favorable action in Nicaragua's two pending loans" was signed and approved at least through the DDP level. Whether the DCI'actually approved this recommendation is a
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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.