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.
Whelan that Somoza, through Ambassador Sevilla-Sacasa, expressed the opinion that Napoli had not kept him properly informed regarding the military activities at the time of the invasion. In the memorandum of his conversation with Whelan, Napoli pointed out that this undoubtedly was true because he, himself, had not been informed immediately of the developing military situa- tion; and, in fact, it was through Captain Quintana of the Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional at TIDE that he first learned that the beach at Playa Giron was being aban- doned. Moreover, Napoli pointed out that the Agency had violated its own commitment to Somoza that none of the Brigade wounded would be brought back into the TIDE area -- a commitment that Napoli had made to President Somoza after receiving prior Headquarters guidance. Further, the Agency failed to meet the date that it had agreed to for removing those wounded. In addition some of the vessels returning to TIDE/from Cuba had wounded aboard, but through Napoli's efforts, apparently, they were not off-loaded. Somoza apparently bore no ill will toward Napoli, for upon the latter's departure,.
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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.