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 17 2021z 60 TO: GUATEMALA CITY FROM: DIRECTOR COpy OPERATIONAL IMMEDIATE OUT 93106 CITE: DIR 11909 OPERATIONAL IMMEDIATE GUAT REF: GUAT 546 (IN 43126)* 1. TO REMOVE ANY DOUBT THESE ARE CURRENT INSTRUC- TIONS: CUBAN TROOPS, AIR AND GROUND, ARE NOT TO BE COMMITTED TO SUPPORT YDIGORAS GOVERNMENT. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THEY SHOULD NOT DEFEND THEMSELVES IF ATTACKED. BY SAME TOKEN IF EVACUATION BECOMES A i'JECESSITY, THEY ARE AUTHORIZED TO FIGHT THEIR WAY TO EVACUATION POINT. 2. IF REF SHOULD BECOME A REALITY, NEW INSTRUC- TIONS WILL BE FORTHCOMING. END OF MESSAGE * Base Cmdr at Poptun reported intercept of broadcast from Radio euoana re help forthcoming soon for rebels at Puerto Barrios. Releasing Officer: Richard M. Bissell Jr. Authenticating Officer: J.e.King, e/WHD - 225 - SEct
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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.