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.
incident which could have had serious repercussions, including possible loss of Guatemalan and US lives and the closing out of the training bases in Guatemala. The unfortunate situation seems to have occurred, in part at least, because of the inability of Agency personnel to communicate in Spanish with their Guate- malan hosts. Col. Antonio Batres had requested per- mission to enter the JMADD signal center in order to transmit a message. Batres was not only Chief of Guatemalan Air Force operations, he was also the personal pilot of President Ydigoras. The Agency officer in charge of the communications center had delayed Col. Batres a moment in order to secure sensi- tive materials in the area. According to the report to Headquarters, Batres thought that he was being denied access to the commo facilities which he appar- ently had utilized previously; and he departed the scen&, only to return again with Roberto Alejos, half a dozen Guatemalan soldiers, and the commander of the Guatemalan security guard at JMADD. Alejos also was told that he would have to wait for a few minutes while the area was made secure -- at which pcint Alejos, accompanied by the commander of the Guatemalan guard
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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.