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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DATE: NOV 15 1901Z 60 TO: DIRECTOR FROM: GUATEMALA COpy EMERGENCY IN 42829 CITE: GUAT 540 EMERG DIR INFO EMERG MADD REF: DIR 11343 (OUT 91978)* 1. ON 14 NOV I IADVISED IT NECESSARY GUAT AIR FORCE RECEIVE ADDITIONAL AMMO AND USE OF THE TWO MADD B-26'S. SITUATION CONSIDERED CRITICAL AS ARMY PUR- SUING REBELS AND ESSENTIAL IT HAVE AIR SUPPORT. GOG B-26'S SHOT UP fu~D NEED MAINTENM~CE. 2. AIR ATTACHE CONFIRMED 15 NOV THAT GOG B-26'S SHOT UP AND SHOULD NOT BE PUT •.INTO AIR IN PRESENT CON- DITION. 3. AMBASSADOR CONCURS WITH D THAT ABOVE NEED EXISTS AND] ] SHOULD BE FURNISHED THIS SUPPORT. 4. MORNING 15 NOV I I REPRESENTING 1"----- _ PROCEEDED TO MADD TO OBTAIN AMMO AND B-26's. 5. DREQUESTED \ \ HAVE GUAT PILOTS TALK WITH INSTRUCTOR TO MAKE CERTAIN THEY UNDERSTAND AND QUALIFIED OPERATE AIRCRAFT. ~------c 6 • IN REF TO AMMO AGREED WITH D THAT BULK TO BE STORED AT MADD AND GUAT CITY BASE SUPPLIED ON DAY-TO~DAY BASIS. END OF MESSAGE * Joint ODACID!KUBARK message concerning assistance to GOG. -:r1 l.-S7~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.