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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 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
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