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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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27 Dcccmher F)60
ME MORA ND U~y{ FOR:
SOBJE'C'r:
A asistant Secretary of Sbti)
for Into2."-f,rnel'ican A!f~ira
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Spacial Force Trainer1)
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.1. .l~ttached ia a copy of the propo$~d Meroor~ndum for the
!\.cco?du fOl" submission to the Guatemalan Ambassador in
conn~ction with t..'\e Spedai Force Trainers dlaeu3sed in your
ofIlcG on .Friday~ 23 Decamoor. If, as it is hoped, the Guate-
malan Ambassa.dor will sign tha statement in the lowel" left
hand corner or the attached dra!t~ the document can t ben be .
"sent" from the Depart-mont of State to th~ Secl"etaxy of Defense - ..~.
for a~propr!ate a.ction. This internal U. S. document should. 1
think.. be h.a.ndled by cnty your offic~....Qnd Om'S ~lthough tb.'O
. 7'ec~tving office in Defense. I. e. Gorteral Lanadat~t ~l offic¢.
wQuld be informed.
a. The attached document and the above procedul"o l1ave
'be~n. ",xamin~d a..'"ld appl"ovod by Deputy Sec:retary of Defen.se
Douglas and ho baa advised u.s that he wiH see to it that the
S~ecl~l Force Trainers are rete::\ged i.n accol"danct'J wit!l our
request a:l soon as aU ~tep3 have been completed.
3. I would appreclat~ it. there!ore. H you could giYe me
your reaction as aocn as possible {by tebpbone} so that we nlay
take appTopri~te steps t9 obtain the sigpature of the Guatemala.n
Ambass-ador. I 3S6t1rPO that YO\1 would'· pre.fer to have U3 do thia
in via"w o! the fact that we had tho previous dealings with him.
We propose to ask him fo~ thlfJ 3e<;cr.o.d slgnature on tbe g1"otmds
t.."at a document pf this tYP0 will provide f'-J.m and hia Gove?nmc:nt
with lnor" sect2.re and soundar p!'otection than tM fi:;:-~t docn..-nent•
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