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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Alejos's position from the Cubans -- his role would be as a private Guatemalan citizen, cooperating with the FRD element for idealogical reasons. 9/ In ad- dition to the Agency's interest in protecting the cover stories, Ydigoras himself was very much con- cerned that the training program not be revealed to the public. In one instance when he heard that a Guatemalan Congressman was trying to promote support for a group of pro-Batista Cuban recruits to over- throw Castro, he made it quite clear that such a program would find no support at the presidential level. Ydigoras even went so far as to suggest that perhaps he should expel a few pro-Batista and a few pro-Castro Cubans from Guatemala for propaganda purposes in order to protect the Agency's on-going operations. 10/* By mid-July 1960, construction work had begun on the communications training base and the search was underway for a suitable airstrip. By early August, despite some reservations of the DPD element in charge * Source reference numbers 11 and 12 not used. - 10- TO~CRET
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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.