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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DEPARTME~T OF STATE CONFJPENTIAL FROM: GUATEMALA CITY TO: SECRETARY OF STATE NO: 230, November 15, noon PRIORITY EMBTEL 226 COpy Control: 8173 Reed: Nov 15, 1960 2:56 p.m. GOVElli~MENT FORCES HAVE RETAKEN SECOND MILITARY ZONE HEAD- QUARTERS AT ZACAPA AND RE-ESTABLISHED COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE CAPITAL. GOVERNMENT PLANS SEND ADDITIONAL TROOPS TO SECURE ZACAPA PERMITTING OTHERS PUSH ON TO BARRIOS. SEVERAL BOMBS WENT OFF GUATEMALA CITY LAST NIGHT CAUSING NO LOSS LIFE BUT SEVERELY DAMA~ING MINISTER ECONOMY'S AUTOMOBILE FRONT HIS HOUSE. CAS HAS REPORTS COMMUNISTS WILL ATTEMPT STAGE DEMONSTRATIONS PLAZUELA BARRIOS THIS AFTElli"JOON. MUCCIO - 207 I CONF IDEyr IAL
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