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Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation- Volume 2- Part 1
Central Intelligence Agency · 179 pages · text from the file's own layer
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.
“Nevers”12 pages
- p. 16 …According to Esterline's
report of the meeting "it was never said in so many
words…
- p. 31 …DPD planned to have the SALA representa-
tive, who had never been cleared by the Agency…
- p. 34 …The communications
officer whom Alejos had declared to be "under arrest"
was never technically arrested and…
- p. 53 …We never were informed of KIA or
wounded counts. We did hear that a couple
of…
- p. 55 …round Guatemala for years and we have
never seen Guatemalan pilots fly or shoot
with the…
- p. 64 …emphatically
* Delivery of the ~ight B-26's was never made to the
Government of Guatemala.
- p. 75 …Ydigoras said,
"that piece of paper will never be exposed,"
and it hasn't to my…
- p. 76 …young man I said, "Well, we're never going
to get this thing going unless somebody…
- p. 106 …Venezuela,
have made many friendly noises but never
once have made a firm offer of real…
- p. 138 …the project "until Castro's
defeat" was never officially made to either President
Somoza or President…
- p. 147 …they were
on the ships they would never return to Nicaragua.
With reference to the air…
- p. 153 …68/*
* The Agency's relations with Nicaragua also became \
somewhat strained because Miro Cardona was never…
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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.