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.
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unit and Batres, forced his way into the signal center and informed the Agency officer that he was under arrest. Prior to, and in anticipation of, Alejos's return and the probability of a forced entry, the JMADD security officer had informed the communications officer that such an event would probably occur and that no resistance to Alejos should be made. Fortu- nately in the ensuing discussions between Alejos and the Agency's representatives, the situation was sorted out -- despite Alejos' angry statements that it was his intention to close down the communications activ- ity in order to bring the number of negative aspects of the operation to the attention of "the big boys in Washington." 28/ There were, however, no repercussions nor secur- ity breaks resulting from this incursion by the Guate- malans into the commo center. The communications officer whom Alejos had declared to be "under arrest" was never technically arrested and, by way of apology, Alejo? invited the officer to his home as a dinner guest.
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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.