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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 FROM: GUATEMALA CITY TO: SECRETARY OF STATE NO: 248, NOVEMBER 18, 5 p.m. PRIORITY EMBASSY TELEGRAM 239 AND PREVIOUS. COpy CONTROL: 10774 RECD: NOV 19, 1960 2:32 p.m. REBELLION APPARENTLY COMPLETELY DOMINATED, ALTHOUGH SOME REBELS WITH ARMS AT LARGE IN COUNTRY AND OTHERS FLED TO HONDURAS. SEVERAL DAYS AERIAL BOMBARDMENT CAUSED REBELS FLEE BARRIOS. pRESIDENT ARRIVED BY AIR LATE AFTERNOON NOVEMBER 16 WITH OCCUPYING TJl~OPS. YDIGORAS RETURNED TRIU~HALLY YESTERDAY AND ADDRESSED LARGE WELCOMING CROWD AT AIRPORT DECLARING INTER ALIA GOVERNMENT VICTORY WARNING TO COMMUNISTS LEAVE COUNTRY OR BE EXPELLED. LAST NIGHT YDIGORAS ATTENDED FOOTBALL GAME WITHOUT INCIDENT AND CUR- FEW MOVED BACK TO 10 p.m. PRINCIPAL EVENING NEWSPAPER, EL IMPARCIAL, SUSPENDED FOR 20 DAYS UNDER ARTICLE 14 LAW PUBLIC ORDER FOR ARTICLE BY LIMON BLANCO (HE HAPPENED TO BE CAUGHT IN BARRIOS BY. , REBELLION) DISPARAGING NAVY AND AIR FORCE ACTION. TIME STRINGER ROSENHOUSE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON ON CHARGE HAD PASSED UNCENSORED INFORMATION ABROAD. INFORMAL CENSOR- SHIP APPARENTLY BEING EXERCISED AT TELEGRAPH OFFICE. POLICE ANNOUNCED WOULD SEEN INDICTMENTS AS ACCOMPLICES REBELLION ALL ARRESTED FOR PARTICIPATION IN DEMONSTRA- TIONS, UNAUTHORIZED MEETINGS, DISTRIBUTION SUBVERSIVE PROPAGAJ.~DA AND ACTS TERRORISM. SPORADIC LOCAL BOMBINGS CONTINUING GUATEMALA CITY. NUMBER OF LEFTISTS AND RADI- CALS ARRESTED INCLUDING EDGAR IBARRA, PRESIDENT LEFTIST STUDENT ORGAt'\lIZATION FUEGO. - 227 -
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