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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.
UNC~IFIED it had become a matter of conjecture in the American press and media, Ydigoras invited the whole diplomatic corps up there for an asado, with a sleight of hand he had all the Cubans run up to the other finea, and brought in some of the Guatemalans who were being trained at the same time. He took all of us around and said, "See, everybody's saying that there's been Cubans here: there's nothing but Guatemalans. My boys are being trained."* MOSS: Did anybody swallow this? MUCCIO: Dam[n] few. (Laughter) You must remember that most of those Cuban youngsters were from the so-called better classes. They had means, and they ran all ove~ that country. There were these specially marked jeeps, or unmarked jeeps, going in all directions at all times. I'm sure that more were killed on the roads of Guatemala than were killed at the Bay of Pigs. MOSS: The whole ineptitude of the operation is amazing, not only what you're talking about now, but I was struck by the simple tactics at the beach. It was just incredible to me that it could have been done that way, but that's an aside -- my opinion. MUCCIO: On that point let me mention that I under- stand the same chief of operations handled the Bay of Pigs preparation, implementation, or whatever term you want to use, that had handled the famous Guatemalan incident. * The Agency cable traffic does not reflect any such outing for the diplomatic corps. US newsmen and members of the Congress of Guatemala were given such escorted tours. - 250 - UNC~IED
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