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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DEPARTMENT OF STATE CONFrfrIAL FROM: GUATEMALA CITY TO: SECRETARY OF STATE NO. 238( November 16, 11 a.m. PRIORITY EMBTELS 226 and 230. COpy CONTROL: 8996 RECD: Nov 16, 1960 3:05 p.m. PRESS, RADIO AND TV 9 p.m. LAST NIGHT REPORTED ON VISIT TO ZACAPA "BATTLE FRONT". SAID GOVERNMENT FORCES ROUTED REBELS AND COMPLETELY IN CONTROL THERE. DECLARED GROUND ACTION AGAINST BARRIOS (AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST BASE HAS BEEN CONTINUOUS} WOULD BEGIN TODAY. (WITH ARMING OF CIVIL- IANS AND CONSOLIDATION REBEL POSITION, THIS COULD BE BLOODY.) SAID GOVERNMENT WAS INFORMED REBELS HAD RECEIVED AIR FROM FIDEL CASTRO,· THAT "WE ARE ALONE BECAUSE ONLY THE GOVERN- MENT HONDURAS OF DR. RAMON VILLEDA MORALES HAS OFFERED ITS HELP A1~D SUPPORT", AND THit:T GUATEMALA HAS SATISFAC- TION NOT A SINGLE FOREIGN SOLDIER AMONG ITS TROOPS. DE- CLARED COMMUNISTS TRYING EXPLOIT SITUATION AND ENCOURAGED POPULACE HAVE FAITH AND BE VIGILANT AGAINST COWARDLY STREET BOMBING ACTIVITIES, ET CETERA. STREET DEMONSTRATIONS CALLED FOR LAST EVENING QUITE UN-. SUCCESSFUL. ESTIMATED 100-200 PERSONS APPEARED, SOME OF THEM CRYING "DOWN WITH YDIGORAS" .A1~D "VIVA CASTRO". BUT WERE QUICKLY DISPERSED BY POLICE WITHOUT UNTOWARD INCIDENT. UNDERSTOOD CASUALTIES AMONG GOVERNMENT TROOPS ZACAPA ABOUT 50 KILLED AND NUMEROUS WOUNDED. SOME REBELS TAKEN PRISONERS BUT MANY FLED TO RESIST ELSEWHERE OR TO TRY JOIN BARRIOS FORCES. GOVERNMENT FORCES HAVE ARRIVED BARRIOS. EMBASSY AND CAS HEA~ING NUMEROUS REPORTS TO EFFECT DISSAT- ISFACTION WITH YDIGORAS GROWING AND THAT COMMUNISTS ACTIVE AND VARIOUS OTHER GROUPS ITCHING ACT. MUCCIO - 220 / CONFIDEfIAL
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