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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President of the United States himself, Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Agency's request which was to touch off the brouhaha was initiated by Col. Jack Hawkins (USMC), Chief, WH/4/PM on 19 October 1960. After approval through the chain of command to the DDP was formalized (16 November 1960), then J. C. King, Chief, Western Hemisphere Division, prepared a memorandum for the Mobilization and Military Personnel Division (MMPD), Office of Personnel, CIA asking that 38 US Army Special Forces personnel be acquired for training JMARC assets in a foreign area. In his memorandum, Col. King noted that Captain Burns Spore, Office of Special Operations, Department of Defense had been informed about the re- quirement; but since no official action had yet been taken by DOD regarding the spec~al Forces personnel, MMPD was being asked to make it official. At a subsequent meeting between representatives of WH/4 and Captain Spore, the DOD representative apparently got his back up about the lack of informa- tion .that DOD -- in his opinion at any rate -- had about the Agency's operational plans against Cuba. Inasmuch as the Agency's request came about the same - 60 -
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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.