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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E. November Revolt -- Policy Makers vs Pragmatists For all practical purposes, the voice of the US Government in Guatemala during the months when the ground and air training bases -- JMTRAV and JMADD, respectively -- were being established was that of the Central Intelligence Agency. Agency training programs were developed with the full and complete cooperation of the President of Guatemala, his prin- cipal spokesman, Roberto Alejos, and other high GOG officials. Such interest as the Department of State evidenced in the affairs of Guatemala were concerned principally with embarrassments that might result from Cuban charges in the OAS or in the UN relating to US support for Cuban exiles training in the Guate- malan area. By mid October of 1960 this point was causing some consternation to Assistant Secretary of State, Thomas Mann. 35/ From this time forward until his replacement as Assistant Secretary of State for American Republican Affairs, Mann was the Agency's prejudicial were unquestionably necessary in view of the fact that CIA was forced to use the Guatemalan training sites. The Agency's preference for the use of CONUS facilities for the training had been continu- ously denied.
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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.