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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The fact of long continuing support from the government of Guatemala showed in an incident of early December which also reflected some internal dissension between 1 1 and the Chief of Base at JMTRAV. Colonel Egan had apparently arranged for an air reception and field training exercise for a group of Cuban trainees at the "finca San Jose" (probably the finca San Juan in the San Jose area) which was another of the properties Robert Alejos made available to the Agency~ but somewhere in the process Egan had failed to clear the exercise with ei ther Dor the local authori.ties -- military and civil -- in the area of the finca. The result being that: Airdrops attracted attention local secur- ity forces who appear considerably more alert and effective than in TRAV area. Night 7 December delegations from national police, military, and ~my.MP visited finca. Fortunately "Alejos was visiting and ex- plained that no invasion in progress, only secret army maneuvers. In his cable to headquarters reporting the incident, Chief of Base TRAV also had indicated that a planned . This particular cable is another of the relatively few concerning the JMATE operation which were released by Richard Helms as Chief of Operations, DDP. - 55 - TOP ;;CRET
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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.