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.
“Headquarters”2 pages
Appendix 2-D
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30 Decemher L960
ME'i\.~ORA NDUM FOR: Deputy.A 6siatant to thn Secretary of
Dcf'~nse for Special Operation3
SUBJECT: Special Force Trainers
t. Attached are the origir>...a.t 5ig~ed documents in conn:ection
with the Spedal Force TrainerfJ with which you al'e .familiar.
The first ia the ag:L'eement~ dated 21 December. signed by"
both .t~lejo9» tho Guatemalan 1)mb~3sador to the U'nitad St.:l.tes,
and by Jake Esterline; and the second is 4 1>1emorandum for
. th~ Record signed by ...'" lajos on 29 December. The latt~r
dccument is ~d~ntical to the one sc.o°.yn to Secretary Douglaa
by General LanadOlle a few days ~go.
.... .
2. The State Depa.:i:"tment wiU pro"oide {I hope today} the...-"
lett.er of transmittal cov<)ring the l'Aemo:rand~ for the Record
and discussad with General Lansdale. Sinc~. as you }..... ow.
we are very amdou3 to take action as soon as possible_ I
hope that you win be willing to act on the attached documents
without waiting [o-r ~eceipt of the letter of transmittal frQm
the D"partIDeut of State. .A3 you know. both .Assistant Secretax-y
Mann and Secretary 1v~erchant approved tho proceduri;' eso there
is not the sUgbtest doubt that such a lstter ...·'ill be provided.
3. I asaumit that when tb.e!;le docnmenb have served their
pU?pose. you wilt either hold them in Y0t1~ .file:! 03". if you
prefer. return them to :me and! wilt fila tha-m ha:re~ .Anything
that yon can. do to e.x:pedito this :rnatte~ will be very much
uppredated. in thltJ conn!}ction. in orde~ to keep me up-to-
dat~. would you be good enough to giy~ :me a call when th~
matter i:s under way.
A ttachm.enb:
1. Agroemont dtd 21 Dec.
Z. Memo for Record dtd 29 D;}c. Not linked to a story yet.
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