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~ET to be approved or authorized; but it was quite clear that the Agency wished to defer to State on the matter of the formal loan applications and to put the political burden on the Department's back. 54/ At the same time that the Agency was holding Somoza's hand, Headquarters was being extremely concerned that none of our assurances to Nicaragua got put into writing. 55/ On a very local level, Somoza pointed out to Ambassador Whelan that because the government of Nica- ragua had diverted funds which had been appropriated by the Nicaraguan Congress to keep the railroad and road systems operating in order to support TIDE activities, he was going to be in a very embarrassing position should TIDE collapse, and should the US fail to provide the $(US)2 million loan. 56/ In Washington, Ambassador Sevilla-Sacasa pressed Napoli for assistance in getting high level assurance that Nicaragua would not suffer in either the UN or OAS because of her anti-Castro position. Sevilla-Sacasa suggested that Berle, Rusk, or President Kennedy would be a suitable US spokesman to indicate that Nicaragua's position would be supported should any international or regional sanctions be
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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.