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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increment in the number of" trainees into the TRAV area was reported to have gotten a negative response from Alejos. 60/ But following receipt of his copy of the cable, ________________ 1 sent an OPIM to the director pointing out that COB TRAV had failed to properly coordinate his cable for, in truth, Alejos was reported to have been "enthusiastic about additional 400 men ln training program" and, furthermore, according to c==J, Alejos had taken a nurnberof steps to place additional facilities at the disposal of the in- corning trainees, including additional housing and the laying of a pipeline to insure that there would be no shortage of water at JMTRAV. c==Jchewed on COB TRAV for failure to coordinate because this was the sort of thing which could lead to the brBak- down of the cover story and embarrassment to the GOG. message closed on the following note: ~wishes to make a matter of record for~efit COB's future action and DIR information the fact that COB's will not (repeat not) release cables to HQS on . policy or political matters until sub- jects have been properly staffed out with o Dintends to relieve COB from - 56 - Tor0 ET
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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.