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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payments, arms traffic, illegal Cuban Embassy participation, etc. and not give false impression Cuban revolution "catch- ing on" in popularity other WH countries. Also use any pertinent news peg as occa- sion mention continued shipments and train- ing in use Soviet bloc arms including artillery by Castro militia. 54/ By 16 November 1960, the revolt for all practical purposes had come to an end. At that time there were pockets of resistance reported in the area between Puerto Barrios and Gualan, but no evidence had been found which would support charges of Cuban involvement. Before the conclusion of the fighting, however, Presi- dent Ydigoras did request -- and received -- two of the JMADD B-26's because the Guatemalan Air Force B-26's had been shot up to the point where they were in no condition to fly additional combat missions. As a result of the unsettled situation in Guatemala, re- cruitment of PM ground trainees for JMTRAV was suspended until further notice, the B-26's were recalled to the JMADD air base, and, for the moment, all Air National Guard (ANG) and military assignees to ~ffiDD were con- fined to the base.* During the course of the revolt * It was reported to Headquarters that on the mOLning of 15 Nov 60, four armorers from MADD. had been briefly detained by an "officer group" at the Guatemala City airfield. The detainees probably were USAF military assignees. -~ TOP)FCRET
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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.