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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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DEPARTMENT OF STATE CONFIDENTIAL FROM: GUATEMALA CITY COpy Control: 8458 NO. 237, November 15, 6 p.m. TO: SECRETARY OF STATE Reed: Nov 16, 1960 1:42 a.m. PRIORITY Dept. Telegram 332. SOME·INFORMATION IN RESPONSE DEPARTMENT TELEGRAM CONTAINED EMBASSY TELEGRAM 226. THERE IS ALMOST NO EVIDENCE, SHOWING CUBAN INVOLVEMENT IN CURRENT UPRISING IN GUATEMALA, REPORTS CONTINUE TO CIRCULATE, HOWEVER, THAT THIS IS THE CASE AND GOVERNMENT SEEMS CONVINCED THIS IS SO. FOR EXAMPLE, ARMY ATTACHE JUST APPRISED BY ARMY"'CHIEF STAFF OF MESSAGE RE- CEIVED BY DEFENSE MINISTER FROM MILITARY COMMANDER POPTUN BASE, TRANSMITTING WHAT BASE COMMANDER SAID WAS INTERCEPTED MESSAGE FROM RADIO CUBANA, PRESUMABLY TO REBEL FORCES AT BARRIOS, ASKING WHETHER AIRPORT AT BARRIOS USEABLE AND IN- DICATING PROMISED SUPPLIES WOULD BE FORTHCOMING. CHIEF OF IMMIGRATION ARTURO AGUIRRE MATHEU TOLD EMBASSY TODAY .THAT ABOUT 10 DAYS AGO, FOLLOWING A VIST TO HONDU- MS, HE'TURNED OVER TO PRESIDENT-INFORMATION SECURED IN HONDURAS IMPLICATING CAPT~IN ARTURO CHUR DEL CID IN CASTRO ACTIVITIES HONDURAS, CHUR DEL CID IS REPORTEDLY ONE OF LEADERS REVOLT WHO LED INITIAL ATTACK NOVEMBER 13 ON CUARTEL GENERAL (EMBTEL 222). AGUIRRE ALSO TOLD EMBASSY THAT COL. PAZ TEJADA, CLOSE ASSOCIATE OF ARBENZ AND EXTREME LEFTIST REVOLUTIONARY, WAS THE MILITARY LEADER BEHIND THE REVOLT. COLONEL ENRIQUE PERALTA, MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, TOLD (eontd) _ 217 _ rnNFTDF.N'T'TAT.
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