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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Barnes, the A/DDP/A, mentioned among other things "Although we failed to complete these arrangements with Ydigoras [e.g., the signing of the Status of Forces Agreement] we have since been successful in making identical arrangements with the Guatemalan Ambassador to Washington who acted as the Government of Guatemala representative in place of Ydigoras." 71/" Esterline continued as the principal in the negotiations that led to the signing of the agreement (21 December 1960) with the Guatemalan Ambassador. This, however, was not the end of the story. In a meeting on 22 December with representatives of the Department of Defense, John M. Irwin, Assistant Secretary for Defense and a newcomer to the negotia- tions, raised a question about the utility of the secret agreement that had been signed; and he indi- cated that the agreement showing that the CIA was \ providing US military forces to another government to train personnel of that government would not serve the primary purpose of providing a secure cover for the SF trainers. As a result of Irwin's objections it was decided that an attempt would be made to get
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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.