Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation- Volume 2- Part 1

Oral agreements notwithstanding, there is evi-
dence that Alejos tried to take advantage of the sit-
uation on a number of occasions. As early as August
1960, for example, Alejos's brother-in-law, an engineer,
was proposed for a contract of $1,000 per month for
work related to the development of the JMTRAV training
site; and in January 1961, or shortly prior to January;
Alejos had proposed that Agency transport aircraft
flying between Guatemala and Florida be used to carry
,shrimp to the United States. The numerous difficulties
attendant upon such an operation were sufficient to
cool this proposal, but far more pressure was exerted
by Alejos during the period shortly before the invasion
in an attempt to get the Agency to help him sell his
coffee crop -- presumably because his participation
in project activities had forced him to miss numerous,
opportunities to obtain the best price for his coffee.
The Agency found an export agent in the US for Alejos,
but the coffee sales were to be within the Guatemalan
quota. 34/*
* How such relationships would be regarded in light
of the investigative morality of the mid-1970's, is
a moot point. At a time that the Bay of Pigs was
being planned, the activities which now might seem
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