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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.

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DATE: DEC 15 1559Z 60 PRlORITY
TO: DIRECTOR IN 17634
FROM: GUATEMALA CITY CITE: GUAT 700
REFS: A. GUAT 655 (IN 12474)*
B. GUAT 693 (IN 17002)**
C. GUAT 699 (IN 17440)***
IN 13 DEC 60 MEETING WITH I ~~ L-I IMADE IT
VERY CLEAR THAT NEW GOVT (RESULTING FROM REVOLT BY MIL GROUP
AND PR-MLN-DCG COALITION) WILL CONTINUE SUPPORT ODYOKE
&~TI-CASTRO OPERATIONS.
2. WHEN 1 1 POINTED OUT THAT YDIGORAS FALL WOULD
HELP CASTRO, I IEMPHASIZ~? THAT BOTH MIL AND CIVILIANS
INVOLVED ARE STRONGLY ANTI-COMMm~IST AND ANTI-CASTRO AND
WOULD BE EVEN MORE FORCEFUL THAN YDIGORAS IN THAT RESPECT.
HE RECOMMENDED THAT ODYOKE GIVE MORAL SUPPORT NOW TO PLOT-
TING GROUP BECAUSE YDIGQRAS SURE TO FALL SOON.
3. ALTHOUGH AT OUR REQUEST I IHAS IN PAST SUCCESS~
FULLY PREVENTED PR ACTION AGAINST YDIGORAS, HE NOW SAYS
HE CAN NOT STOP COALITION AND CERTAINLY NOT MILITARY AND
NEITHER HE NOR ANYONE ELSE CAN DO ANYTHING TO PREVENT
YDIGORAS OVERTHROW.
END OF MESSAGE
*Sitrep giving [ [view that another military
revolt againsE YdLgoras could take place in the near.
future.
**Request GALBOND (ll check with ODACID regarding aid
grant to GOG.
***Report on Guatemalan revolutionary activities.
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