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 ~RET that after a session with Thomas Mann the Guatemalan Ambassador, Carlos Alejos, felt that the Guatemalan cause was lost. IL -----"I apparently was unaware of the contents of the Ydigoras letter to Kennedy which presumably precipitated Mann's reaction, but in any event, he cabled OPIM to Headquarters re- porting on Ydigoras's feeling. Roberto Alejos was successful in setting up a meeting with President Kennedy on 7 March 1961 with Thomas Mann and an Agency representative also in attendance. * The letter from the President of Guate- mala, which incidentally had been prepared in both Spanish and in a bad English translation, was discussed.** Mann's Memorandum of Conversation and copies of the Spanish and English versions of Ydigoras's letter were transmitted to Ralph Dungan of the White House Staff on 16 March 1961, and in the transmittal it was noted * It is believed that Tracy Barnes, rather than Jake Esterline, represented the Agency. ** The English translation had been prepared by GOG not by State.
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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.