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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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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.
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