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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 CONFInjNTIAL COpy Page 2, #248, November 18,5 p.m., from Guatemala City EMBASSY HAS STILL SEEN NO EVIDENCE CASTRO INSTIGATION OR SUPPORT REBELLION. CAS HAD REPORTS, HOWEVER, COMMUNISTS TRIED JOIN MOVEMENT AFTER IT STARTED BUT REBUFFED BY REBEL MILITARY. ALSO IT GENERALLY BELIEVED MARIO RENE CHAVEZ GARCIA, MEMBER PUR At'JD KNOWrJ COMMUNIST, WAS IN BARRIOS DURING REBELLION. PRENSA LIBRE REPORTER CALLED HIM "CIVIL CHIEF" BARRIOS OPERATION AND SAID HE DIRECTED PUBLIC MEETING BARRIOS MONDAY NIGHT AT WHICH GOVERNMENT WAS DENOUNCED AND VICTORY REBEL FORCES PREDICTED. THERE WA,S ABORTIVE MOVE BY EXTREME LEFTIST DEPUTIES TO HAVE CONGRESS DECLA,RE YDIGORAS INC~MPETENT TO RULE. JUST PRIOR SUCCESSFUL QUELLING REVOLT, EMBASSY HEARD. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF PLOTTING AND INDICATIONS FAIRLY WIDE- SPREAD FEELING YDIGORAS' S DAYS NUMBERED. EMBASSY HAS IMPRESSION, HOWEVER, YDIGORAS'S POSITION MAY NOW BE STRONGER TH1\L~ BEFORE. HE GAINED PERSONAL PRESTIGE FROM QUICK VICTORY AND PERSONAL DIRECTION OF OPERATIONS. LEFTISTS AND DISPARATE RIGHTISTS HAVE SEEN EVIDENCE HE COURAGEOUS. HE APPEARED COMPLETELY CONFIDENT THIS MORNING WHEN I TOOK SENATORS HICKENLOOPER AND BUSH TO SEE HIM. HE TOLD US OF HIS RELENTLESS EFFORTS ESTABLISH DEMOCRACY IN GUATEMALA, CITING DIFFICULTIES DOING SO IN VIEW AUTHORITARIAN TRADITIONS AND POINTING EXAMPLES PROGRESS THIS FIELD SINCE TOOK OFFICE. HE EMPHASIZED HIS GRAVE CONCERN TODAY NOT MILITARY OR POLITICAL BUT ECONOMIC. MUCCIO - 228; CONF I DrTIAL
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