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Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation- Volume 2- Part 2

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This is part of Volume II of the CIA History Staff's official history of the Bay of Pigs operation, covering participation in the conduct of foreign policy, dated October 1979 and approved for release in 2011. The appendixes reproduce CIA and State Department cables on the November 1960 Guatemalan army revolt, including Guatemalan requests for arms, ammunition and air surveillance, memorandums on Special Forces trainers, and part of a 1971 oral history interview with Ambassador John J. Muccio. It contains no UFO material.

DATE: NOV 13 2159Z 60
TO: DIRECTOR
FROM: MADD
EMERGENCY DIR INFO EMERGENCY GUAT EGLI
COpy
EMERGENCY
IN 41835
CITE HADD 0542
1. REQUEST B-26's NOW AT EGLI BE PLACED ON
STAl\JDBY ALERT FOR POSSIBLE US~ DEFENSE OF I-ffiDD.
2. REQUEST &~Y AVAILABLE INFO ON AIRCRAFT WHICH
COULD BE USED ON EVACUATION PLN~S. AS OF 132030Z MADD
HAS ONE C-46 AT MADD. ALL OTHER AIRCRAFT AT GUA'r CITY.
UNABLE TO EVACUATE ALL PERSONNEL I I WITH------
PRESENT AIRCRAFT SHOULD THIS BECOME NECESSARY. ADVISE.
END OF MESSAGE
THIS MESSAGE WAS RELAYED TO DPD BY SIGNAL CENTER.
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