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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the OAS investigation of Guatemala, and it also con- tains the following tantalizing message: Impossible to give proof of what is happening in Cuba[.] Members of the Premier's personal guard have been shot [according to] some sources of informa- tion. §j* By mid-June 1960 plans were well in hand for establishing training activities in Guatemala. Roberto Alejos, who had gone from Washington to Miami, had been introduced to Casimiro (Chick) Barquin of DPD the Agency's air arm -- who was about to take off for Guatemala to survey the airfields at San Jose and Retal- huleu, to check the airstrip at Peten, and to see what other airstrips might be available. Robert Davis, 1 was in Miami to perform the introductions. -------- As proved to be the case in Nicragua, ---'=====,------ 1 _____IGUatemala planned to iso.late I Iactivities from the PM and communications training programs which * In Spanish the message read as follows: PRUEBAS LO QUE PASA EN CUBA IMPOSIBLE DARLAS FUSILARIAN MIEMBROS GUARDIA PERSONAL PREMIER UNA DE LAS TANTAS FUENTES INFORMATION STOP. Apparently in the transmission or in the cablese some words and punctuation were lost,' omitted, or goofed up.
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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.