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 sj:RET The President and the Foreign Minister both indicated their desire that said paper corne to the attention of Mr. Adolph [sic] Berle, a man whose past career they seemed to know very well. C/JMATE assured them that this would be done. 79/ Available records do not indicate that the Agency was further involved in the promotion of this particular activity on the part of the GOG, however, it was quite. clear that Ydigoras continued to be very sensitive about Belize. In March of 1961, one of the JMADD C-54's was forced to land in Jamaica after an airdrop over Cuba -- said aircraft having filed a flight plan out of San Jose, Guatemala. Unfortunately, the GOG had not given prior authorization for this flight plan. When word from Jamaica apparently got out that the flight originated at San Jose, Roberto Alejos was constrained to make an immediate press release denying that the aircraft had ever corne out of Guatemala, and he sug- gested that the British were tyring to embarrass the Guatemalan Government, in part, at least, so that there would be no pressure for negotiations on the Belize issue. In any event, Headquarters sent an OPIM cable to Guatemala recommending that Alejos and Ydigoras -83/ TOP ~RET
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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.