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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TOP faced with this weighty problem which had now lost us three weeks ... "directed" or "authorized" ..• I remember what- T.l1,....'::ln u. Truscott I I I 10/*L-- _ How the actual negotiations in Washington were conducted is not clear from the records that are now available. In a Memorandum for the Director of Central Intelligence dated 21 December 1960, however, C. Tracy * During an Oral History (9 January 1976) interview, Mr. Drain had indicated that Esterline had signed the agreement with Ydigoras, but in a telecon with Mr. Drain on 19 August 1976, when the author raised the question of whether Drain was certain that Esterline and Ydigoras had signed the agreement -- pointing out to Drain the indications in the cable traffic were contrary to this -- Drain said that he could not be positive. With reference to the possibility of having met with Roberto Alejos in Washington, Drain did remem- ber one meeting that he had with Roberto Alejos and his brother Carlos Alejos, the Ambassador to the United States, in which he thought that this subject might have been discussed and that Roberto Alejos did get in touch with Ydigoras. Drain, however, could not be positive that it had been over the matter of having Carlos Alejos sign off on the Status of Forces Agree- ment. 70a/ - 69 - TOP SECRET
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 179 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.