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.
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COpy 1. 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. - 206 j- SEcp.T
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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.