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 19Q4Z 60 TO: TRAV FROM: DIRECTOR COpy OPERATIONAL IMMEDIATE OUT 92431 CITE: DIR 11564 TO OPIM TRAV INFO MADD, GUAT 1. ZRMEDRICK SMALL ARMS AND BASIC LOAD AT MADD INCLUDE 66 PISTOLS, 212 RIFLES, 66 SMG'S, 18 LMG'S, 18 BAR'S, 7 EA. 3.5" ROCKET LAUNCHERS, 4 EA. 57MM RECOILLESS RIFLES, 6 EA 60MM MORTARS, 18 DEMOLITION KITS, 4 INCENDIARY.~ KITS, 288 GRENADES, 24 AN/PRC-IO'S WITH EXTRA BATTERIES, ..: 40 AT MINES, AND"4 CORPSMAN KITS. COMPASSES, BINOCULARS AND FIRST AID KITS PACKED WITH WEAPONS. 2. FIVE-DAY AMMO RESUPPLY THESE WEAPONS h~D TRAV WEAPONS BEING SHIPPED MADD ASAP. ETA FOLLOWS. ALSO SHIP- PING~DICAL FIELD SET WITH PLASMA. END OF MESSAGE Releasing Officer: J.C.KING, C/WHD by I Coordinating Officerd~.------------~ I f WH/4/0PS J. Hawk1ns, C/WH/4/PM W.Eisemann, C/WH/4/SPT Authenticating Officer: W. "Eisemann. C/WH/4/SPT
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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.