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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As an appropriate final note to indicate the dominant role of the Agency in determining US foreign policy vis-a-vis Nicaragua, a cable of 15 April 1961 from Managua to Headquarters reads;oas follows: Napoli requests know, if Ambassador Brown, who ETA Managua 16 April, briefed on JMATE/JMTIDE. If not, does Headquarters authorize briefing if Ambassador so requests. 70/ 0 This was a strange question to have to be asked of Wash- ington at this particular time. Even stranger, perhaps, is the fact that the Department of State was scheduling a new Ambassador to arrive at the time that the planned attack on Cuba being assigned out of the country to which he was was about to kick off. Whether this was an indication of relative indifference on the part of the Department or a sign of supreme confidence in the ability of its personnel to cope is left to the reader's jUdgment. H. Postscript on Nicaragua Two interesting postscripts to the story of the Agency's involvement in Nicaraguan foreign policy con- cern the period following the collapse of the invasion. In May 1961, Lou Napoli was informed by former Ambassador - 143 -
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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.