Documents / FOIA release
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 14 0044Z 60 TO: GUATEMALA CITY FROM: DIRECTOR COpy EMERGENCY OUT 91823 CITE: DIR 11291 TO EMERGENCY GUAT INFO EMERGENCY MADD TRAV RE A. GUAT 514 (IN 41849) * B. GUAT 515 (IN 41850)** WORKING ON REF REQUESTS BUT TO DELIVER NEED YOUR ADVISE SOONEST AS TO AVAILABILITY SECURE AIRFIELDS ..~ PARTICULARLY MADD AND SAN JOSE. ALSO DO YOU HAVE UNLOAD- ING lND DISTRIBUTION CREWS AND FACILITIES. END OF MESSAGE * I I (11 request for arms and arnmunition through AIRATT. Latter could not produce. Queried if could be supplied black throughMADD. **GOG requested if at all possible send napalm bombs to be mounted on GOG B-26's. Releasing Officer: William Bradley bY' direction of A/CSDO C. Tracy Barnes ADDP/A - 1 ~~L- SECrT
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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.