Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation- Volume 2- Part 2

Appendix 3
Portion of
Oral History Interview
with
Ambassador John J. Muccio
13 April 1971
Washington, D. C.
by William W. Moss
........
for the John P. Kennedy Library*
MOSS: Ambassador Muccio, you were ambassador to .
Guatemala beginning in late 1959, if my in-
formation is correct. The sources that I
have indicate that the Eisenhower administra-
tion went ahead with funding of a project to
invade, or to do something about recapturing,
Cuba in March of 1960. The money went towards
training guerrilla bands in Guatemala. I was
wondering what the first knowledge you had of
this was. How did it come to your attention,
in what way, under what circumstances?
MUCCIO: When the liaison to Ydigoras man arrived in
Guatemala he had a note to me from one of
the Assistant Secretaries of State saying
that so and so will approach you on a program
we intend to be inaugurated in Guatemala.**
* Pages 1-6.
** One such note to Muccio in Guatemala City from R. R.
Rubottom, Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-
American Affairs, 15 Jul 60, read as follows: "Dear
Much[?] I have asked Bob Davis [Robert K. Davis, I I
I I who will bring this letter to you, to convey
some information which is very closely held." (Source:
State, PADRC, Micro card file: 60-242, Geneva 762
(3-16-62)-Interior Dept (7-10-62), Operations. S.)
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