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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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personnel for training the invasion force. Although not without difficulty, small unit cadres were trained at Fort Randolph in the Panama Canal Zone for infiltra- tion, the establishment of commo activities, and sabotage. With the move to Guatemala, it was obvious that addi- tional trainers would be required; and as a result, Chief JMATE worked very closely with Soviet Division, particularly the Domestic Operations Base, to obtain the services of the so-called "unofficial Americans" who had been recruited by SB under the AEDEPOT program to serve as trainers for the Cuban Brigade. Formal arrangements between the Soviet Division and JMATE were concluded in early September 1960. 62/ Despite the fact that the AEDEPOT program had been initiated ____________________ 1 a total of 21 agents and five staff personnel joined the JMATE pro- ject. The actual recruiting was run through the FRD recruitment program headed by Juan Paula Argeo. The WH representatives were introduced as US Government officials sympathetic to the cause of the anti-Castro Cubans. It was pointed out, however, that the US
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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.