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 Deputy Secretary of Defense by Brigadier General Lansdale with a proposal that it be raised at the next Group meeting. 61/ The end result was that neither Army Special Forces nor USAF assignees were officially permitted to move from Guatemalan bases to TIDE. The number of USAF ground crew personnel who were at TIDE "unofficially" cannot be determined. G. Down to the Wire with Somoza Whether or not, adequate formal assurance of sup- port in the OAS or UN was actually reached between President Somoza and high level officials of the United States Government is uncertain -- what is certain, how- ever, is that Somoza gave his full cooperation to the Agency effort to mount the operation out of Puerto Cabezas. As of 10 April, in a meeting with the Agency representative, it was made clear that the Somozas were going to do everything in their power to insure the security of the operation. Measures to be taken included the monitoring and censorship of radio, out- going cables, international telephones, television, and the press, and control of the airlines -- on 15 April 1961, for example, commercial air traffic to Puerto
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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.