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.
“Jacobs”10 pages
forces in the TRAV and ~~DD areas were called to service by Ydigoras, and the Agency's C-46 aircraft out of JMADD participated in transporting these troops to Guatemala City. There was considerable concern about the fact that this left only one C-46 at the Retalhuleu airfield, and this would be insufficient should an emergency evacuation of the Cuban Brigade and Agency personnel be required. Headquarters directed, however, that air transport support continue to be given to the Ydigoras government. An additional problem presented almost immediately to JMATE was a GOG request for large amounts of ordnance to replace expenditures from the first day's strafing and rocket attacks by Guatemalan Air Force B-26'son various . points which had fallen to the rebel forces. The Guatemalan government requested,. among other ordnance, components for manufacturing napalm bombs; but this request was rejected for technical reasons. Requests from the field went to Headquarters for the standby of additional B-26's that might be needed by MADD and for C-54 flights to bring in small arms and ammunition. The Chief of Air operations at JMADD, Major Billy B. Campbell, had been to Headquarters
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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.