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.
employed in the exercises. 16/* The President of Guatemala was interested in doing more than simply providing a cover story for the Agency activities. Throughout the period prior to the invasion and even through the course of the invasion he or his chief spokesman, Roberto Alejos, made it quite clear on numerous occasions that they would be willing, indeed were anxious, to see Guatemalan Army and Air Force personnel actively participate ln the operations against Castro's Cuba. As early as September 1960 when the first resupply overflight was being planned, Alejos and the Defense Minister of Guatemala were in serious discussion with Carl Jenkins, the COB of the ground training base, JMTRAV, about the possibility of using some Guatemalan personnel as either PDO's or assigning a counterpart Guatemalan Air Force crew to the C-54 * It is possible that this training was made possi- ble, in part at least, by the 5,000 pounds of small arms and perhaps as much as 100,000 pounds of machine guns,· ammunition, and rockets that CIA provided to the GOG at this time. 17/ - 14 - TO~ECRET
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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.