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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 1630Z 60 TO: GUATEMALA CITY FROM: DIRECTOR COpy OUT 91832 CITE: DIR 11294 TO GUAT INFO MADD TRAV EGLIN RE: A. GUAT 514 (IN 41849)* B. GUAT 515 (IN 41850)** 1. PER REF A, FOLLOWING BEING PREPARED FOR SHIP- MENT VIA TWO C-54'S: 200 SMG CAL .45; 100,000 RDS AMMO CAL .45; AND APPROX 70 BOMBS J;;..RAG 220 LBS. 2. PER REF B, TECHNICAL PERSONNEL NOT IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR NAPALM BOMB PREPARATION AND INSTALLATION. RECO!1MEND MADD MUNITION RESOURCES BE CHECKED AND UTILIZED. 3. EGLIN: PROVIDE ETA TO MADD AND GUAT. RECALL PLAN MUST BE INCLUDED AND CREW FULLY BRIEFED. ADVISE HQ OF PLAN DETAILS. END OF MESSAGE * I ~requested a minimum of 200 anti-personnel demolitJ..on bo s, 100 lbs each, and 200 sub-machine guns or browning automatic rifles and ammo. ** The GOG requested napalm bombs be sent to be mounted on GOG B-26's. Releasing Officer: J. Esterline Coordinating Officers: OiL DPD - OK per Stan Beerli Authenticating Officer: W.E.Eisemann - 192 -
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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.