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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in Guatemala, Headquarters informed the base in Florida to "discourage" Tony Varona from sending any FRD volunteers into the Central American area; and Head- quarters also rejected a request from the GOG to have Agency lie detector experts participate in interrogat- ing the captured rebel prisoners. As an alternative, D was told to provide guidance to the GOG to hire a commercial firm to participate in the interrogation of the prisoners.* F. Minor Skirmishes: Inter- and Intra-Agency In addition to the two B-26's JMADD supplied to the Guatemalan Air Force during the course of the re- volt, upon completion of the revolt, it was recommended by the Agency, by the Air Attache, and by the Chief of the US Air Mission in Guatemala that eight new B-26's be procured for the Guatemalan Air Force and that these be configured in a manner similar to the aircraft being, operated out of the MADD base. Unfortunately, however, at this point in the game, the US Ambassador was "willing * See Appendix 1 for copies of cable traffic on the various items mentioned in the foregoing paragraph. TOP
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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.