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.
“Jacobs”10 pages
threatened for assistance given the Brigade by Nicaragua should the invasion of Cuba take place. 57/ As the date for the invasion approached and with the approval of Jake Esterline and C. Tracy Barnes Lou Napoli was reassigned (27 March 1961) to Managua on TDY to maintain personal contact with both President and General Somoza on the upcoming operation insofar as it might affect the Nicaraguan government; and like his predecessor, Rip Robertson, Napoli was to confine his activities to Managua and avoid JMTIDE. Napoli expected to do a certain amount of hand-holding on the matter of the loans and make reassuring noises without any firm commitments; and, similarly, he hoped to be able to assure the Nicaraguan government that it would receive support from the US should their Latin American neighbors take umbrage at Somoza's anti-Castro posture. Probably the most significant duty he was to undertake upon his return to Nicaragua was to brief Somoza on the upcoming military operation without, of course, revealing the strike date -- in fact, the instruction indicated that Napoli himself would not know the exact date. ~/ TOP
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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.