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~CRET Source References* Part I Guatemala 1. Cox, Alfred T., Paramilitary Ground Activities at the Staff Level, 15 September 1955 - 31 December 1961. I I Mar 70. Vol. I, pp. 81-85. 2. Memo for DCI from J. C. King, 29 Feb 60, sub: What We Are Doing in Cuba. 3. Revision of General Covert Action Plan for Cuba by C. Tracy Barnes, 14 Mar 60. 3a. Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., A Thousand Days (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965), p. 228. U.** 4. Cable for Director from Guatemala, 31 May 60, GUAT 811 (IN 45788). Memo for Record from Jacob D. Esterline, 20 Jun 60, sub: Negotiations with President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes re Use of Guatemalan Terrain for JMARC Operations. 4a. State: Incoming Telegram to Sec State from Guate- mala City, 18 May 60, Control No. 13560. 5. MR from Jacob D. Esterline, 8 Jun 60, sub: Meeting with Roberto Alejos, Personal Representative of President Ydigoras Fuentes of Guatemala. \ * Unless otherwise specified all sources are classified SECRET. A copy of, or a note on, each of the references cited herein is filed in' the CIA History Staff under HS/HC 2632 "Source References, BOP History." ** All subsequent references to commercial publications (books, magazines, and newspapers) are UNCLASSIFIED.
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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.