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Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation- Volume 2- Part 2

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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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  • p. 50 …J.C.King, Chief, WHD Authenticating Officer: J.D.Esterline, Chief, WH/4 - 21/ SEC/ET
  • p. 58 …Releasing Officer - U J~or J.C.King, Chief, WHD Coora~natlng or lcers: P.E…
  • p. 59 …Releasing Officer: ~ Dfor J.C.King, C/WHD CoordlnatLng Officers II 'I C/WH/4jSupport J…
  • p. 61 …J.e.King, e/WHD - 225 - SEct
DATE: NOV 16 233QZ 60
TO: JMASH
FROM: DIRECTOR
COpy
PRIORITY
OUT 93076
CITE: DIR 11886
PRIORITY MASH INFO PRIORITY GUAT
TRAV, !'1ADD
REF: MASH 1617 (IN 41745)*
1. IN VIEW UNSETTLED CONDITIONS GUAT AND SATURA-
TION TRAV FACILITIES DESIRE MASH SUSPEnD RECRUITMENT OF
PM GROUND TRAINEES UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. GROUND TRAINEES
ALREADY RECRUITED SHOULD BE RELEASED TO ON CALL STATUS..
READY FOR RECALL ON SHORT NOTICE AND MOVE.HENT TO TRAV OR
OTHER CM1P AS DIRECTED.
3. FOR TRAV: IF DECISION REACHED TO SEND ADDI-.
TIONAL RECRUITS TRAV YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED IN ADVN~CE
TO CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL BARRACKS. PERSONNEL WILL NOT
BE SENT UNTIL YOU INDICATE READY TO RECEIVE.
END OF MESSAGE
*MASH has 50-75 PM trainees available shipment TRAV
within 10 days. Request estimate when shipments to
TRAV to begin again.
Releasing Officer:
~ Dfor J.C.King, C/WHD
CoordlnatLng Officers
II 'I C/WH/4jSupport
J.ftaWKlnS, CjwH!4/PM
Authenticating Officer:
EAStanulis,C/WH/4
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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.