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

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 0448Z 60
TO: DIRECTOR
FROM: GUATEMALA CITY
COpy
EMERGENCY
IN 41880
CITE: GUAT 517
EMERG DIR CITE GUAT 517
GOG URGENTLY NEEDS AND REQUESTS MINIMUM 100,000
ROUNDS 50 CAL. ARMOUR PIERCING A.J.\JD TRACER AMMO SOONEST,
BY 14 NOV IF AT ALL POSSIBLE. I IHAS DETERMINED
GOG HAS ONLY 15,000 ROUNDS LEFT FOLLOWING 13 NOV ACTION.
AIRATT STATES THAT AT PRESENT RATE USE GOG WILL EXHAUST
PRESENT SUPPLY EARLY 14 NOV. PLEASE ADVISE.
END OF MESSAGE
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