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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, a specific offer through the CIA "to groups favorably regarded by us [of] training facilities in the Peten area of Guatemala." 2/* B. Establishing Contacts with Ydigoras and Alejos It was more than two months following President Eisenhower's announcement of an anti-Castro program before Chief JMATE, Jacob D. Esterline, and I Robert K. Davis, met with representatives of~-~ the GOGi but in the interval between the announcement and Esterline's first meeting, Davis had already estab~ lished contact with Roberto Alejos -- the principal representative of President Ydigoras Fuentes in all * It is interesingto observe that this specific reference to the use of the Peten area in Guatemala was reworded for use by the DCI in a memorandum to the members of the Special Group to read "this train- ing and holding [of anti-Castro Cubans] would be conducted in a secure remote area of a friendly Latin American country." 3/ The Special Group 5412 was a group composed of the Assistant Secretaries of State and Defense, the DCI, the President's National Security Advise~ and a CIA Secretariat. Its principal purpose was to review proposed para- military and clandestine operations and to provide guidance on such proposals for the President. Presi- dent ~isenhower made extensive use of this group, but President Kennedy largely abandoned it until late in the period of the Bay of Pigs operation.
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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.