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.
“Jacobs”10 pages
TOprRET L- ~~ a I Icorporation which was Agency controlled. For cover purposes it was owned by two members of the FRD. Agency employees in key positions in the company could monitor its activities and conduct necessary business. The B-26 and C-46 aircraft for use in the JMATE project were nominally to be sold to the FRD byl I which, in turn, would support the cover that the aircraft at JMADD belonged to the Guatemalan Government. I Iwould negotiate with SALA for maintenance of the "Guatemalan" aircraft. All of this, of ·course, to involve ferrying of B-26's from CONUS into Guatemala black, removing and replacing of GOG insignia on aircra£t as they might move from Guatemala to Costa Rica where SALA had its principal maintenance base, and generally conducting operations in such a manner as to ~rovide viable cover. 25a/ By mid-September however, no agreement had yet been reached. A few days prior to the time that the DPD representatives planned to close the final agree- ment ~ith SALA, a dispute arose between DPD and WH/4/PM. The question ~oncerned an apparent DPD attempt to go it alone in the negotiations with SALA. The upshot TOP
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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.