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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.
DE GALVEZ RADIO STATION ALSO FELL TO REBELS NOW BROAD- CASTING h~TI YDIGORAS PROPAGh~DA. 4. ON 13 NOV REBELS TOOK ZACAPA AIRFIELD AND MILI- TARY BASE. AIR FORCE STRAFED BASE AND AIR FIELD WITH 5-INCH ROCKETS AND 50 CALIBER MACHINE GUNS. ONE PLANE DAMAGED BY GROUND FIRE. ALL ARMS TAKEN BY REBELS IN NIGHT ATTACK ON CUARTEL GENERAL. 5. REBEL FORCES LED BY THREE COLONELS WHO POLITI- CALLY UNAFFILIATED BUT WHO LEAN TOWARD NON-COMMUNIST LEFT . ..... PART OF GUATEMALAN AIR FORCE rS CO~rnITTED TO NEUTRALITY IN PASSIVE SUPPORT OF COUP. FAR LEFT WILL BE EXOLUDED FROM COUP BY FORCE IF NECESSARY. COUP WILL REQUIRE 72 HOURS AFTER WHICH COALITION GOVT WILL BE FORMED WITH REP- RESENTATlVE FROM EACH NON-YDIGORAS PARTY TO INCLUDE PARTIDO DE UNIDAD REVOLUCIONARIA (PUR). 6. COUP LEADERS ARE LT. COL. RAFAEL SESAN PEREIlRA, WHO FOUGHT AGAINST LIBERATION ARMY OF COL. CARLOS CASTILLO ARMAS; MAJOR JULIO NHINAS, AN OFFICER ON DUTY AT MATAMOROS DURING COUP; LT. COL. AUGUSTO LOARCA, MILITARY SCHOOL IN- STRUCTOR. ALL HAVE NON-POLITICAL HISTORY. (SOURCE COMMENT: POLITICIANS FROM EXTREME LEFT BELIEVED TO BE BEHIND THREE COUP LEADE RS . ) 7 ·1L- -----l IOF PARTIDO REVOLUCIONARIO (PR), SAID CIVILIAN ---- - l8 / . - SE/'T
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 89 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.