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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.

  • p. 17 …the United States ambassador to the OAS, John Dryer, who, according to Alejos, was pressing the…
  • p. 137 TOP SftRET President Somoza's brother -- came to the United States to attend the Kennedy inauguration…
  • p. 149 …Somoza and high level officials of the United States Government is uncertain -- what is certain, how…
  • p. 156 …raising future problems or bad local press by bringing back Cuban exiles as instructors. It seems…
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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.