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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.
to France Field in Panama. Ydigoras himself was facing strong congressional opposition from those who refused to believe that he had not permitted the use of Guate- malan territory for the training of the anti-Castro Cuban group. How desperate the situation appeared to the GOG was noted in a cable from Headquarters to Guatemala: JMARC principal Department of State contact told [Gerard] Droller that Alejos [presumably Ambassador Alejos] had informed President Eisenhower of Guat plan stage Cuban invasion Guat. According this plan, it is intended for number of Cubans land Guat beach and dig for arms caches osten- sibly placed there by Castro agents. "In- vading Cubans" would be apprehended by Guats and brought to trial. Trial pro- ceedings would be extremely fair and sentences extremely light. Ydigoras desires contrast Guat application justice with that of Castro. Intended that the entire operation be bloodless and without shooting. 38/ It was not clear whether the "invaders" were to be volunteers from among the troops in training at JMTRAV, but before any such operation could take place, a real crisis broke in Guatemala. On 13 November 1960 an emergency cable from JMADD was received in Headquarters' at 0931 (Washington time), stating that Roberto Alejos had arrived at the
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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.