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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, , With the reorganization of the political structure of the Cuban exile group in the United States demanded by the Kennedy administration, the leaders of the newly formed Cuban Revolutionary Council (CRC) visited Guate- mala from 29-31 March 1961. Again Roberto Alejos played host and President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes met with Jose Miro Cardona, Chairman of the CRC, Tony Varona, Manuel Artime, and Carlos Hevia. Once again Ydigoras lectured the Cuban political leaders about the need for unity and cooperation with the US government, and once again the political leaders were impressed by the visit . to the training facilities at JMTRAV and ,JMADD. 78/* I. Third Country Involvement During the summer of 1960, as negotiations were proceeding with Guatemala for the training bases, an incident occurred which foreshadowed one of the few areas where the US would be in contention with the GOG during the course of Project JMATE. In a cable of * This visit of the CRC leaders to Guatemala in March of 1961 caused considerable consternation to President Somoza of Nicaragua when he learned that his country would not be visited by the CRC.
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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.