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Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation- Volume 2- Part 1

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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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  • p. 16 …According to Esterline's report of the meeting "it was never said in so many words…
  • p. 31 …DPD planned to have the SALA representa- tive, who had never been cleared by the Agency…
  • p. 34 …The communications officer whom Alejos had declared to be "under arrest" was never technically arrested and…
  • p. 53 …We never were informed of KIA or wounded counts. We did hear that a couple of…
  • p. 55 …round Guatemala for years and we have never seen Guatemalan pilots fly or shoot with the…
  • p. 64 …emphatically * Delivery of the ~ight B-26's was never made to the Government of Guatemala.
  • p. 75 …Ydigoras said, "that piece of paper will never be exposed," and it hasn't to my…
  • p. 76 …young man I said, "Well, we're never going to get this thing going unless somebody…
  • p. 106 …Venezuela, have made many friendly noises but never once have made a firm offer of real…
  • p. 138 …the project "until Castro's defeat" was never officially made to either President Somoza or President…
  • p. 147 …they were on the ships they would never return to Nicaragua. With reference to the air…
  • p. 153 …68/* * The Agency's relations with Nicaragua also became \ somewhat strained because Miro Cardona was never…
report not be forwarded to Washington, but as a result
of the trip, the Military Attache and the Air Attache
in Managua got the hots to trot down to TIDE. Ambas-
sador Whelan, however, backed Robertson's request
that such trips be denied; but fearing that the Ambas-
sador would be unable to contain future requests from
the Department of Defense representatives, Robertson
asked Headquarters for assistance. On 1 February 1961,
a cable went to Robertson from Headquarters stating
"Headquarters has arranged with Pentagon superiors
Mil Attache and MAAG Chief to send them today orders
neither visit nor report on JMTIDE". 48/*
Rip Robertson performed yeoman service in his
stint in Nicaragua in the early months of 1961. In
* An additional problem with a us military contingent
apparently was headed off when the Agency requested
the Pentagon to scrub the planned visit of an Army Map
Service NIS (National Intelligence Survey) group to
TIDE. ~/ Toward mid-June 1961 the arrangements which
the Agency had made through the Subsidiary Division,
Joint Staff and Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence,
US Army still held. At that time (12 June 1961), how-
eve4 the Agency did authorize access to JMTIDE to US
military personnel who were involved in decisions con-
cerning disposal of the materiel still stockpiled at
Puerto Cabezas. 49a/
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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.