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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.
MOSS: Oh, yes. MUCCIO: When -- what was his name -- (Jacobo) Arbenz ... MOSS: Yes. In 1954. MUCCIO: ... 1954, was left isolated and CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) supported Castillo Armas, who came in from Honduras. I doubt whether a single shot was fired by one or the other side in the march from Honduras into Guatemala City. Guatemalan military are brought up in a s:chool where no officer, no member of the armed force ever points a gun at another member, another individual in uniform, period. And I'm afraid some of the haphazard planning was due to the ease of the Guatemalan ...".~ MOSS: I see. MUCCIO: ..• incident in 1954. They were not aware of the control that (Fidel) Castro had already established in Cuba. MOSS: Yes, Yes, I understand. Now in March of 1961, after the new administration took over, Roberto Alejos went to Washington with a letter from Ydigoras. MUCCIO: Go ahead. MOSS: Yes. I was going to say, had you foreknowledge of this, and were you aware that Ydigoras was trying to put pressure on the Americans to get this thing moving. MUCCIO: Well, on two occasions the liaison officer came to me and said that they were having trouble keeping the boys under control; that they'd been trained to such a pitch that they were eager to get this thing going. He wanted to know if I wouldn't write to Washington saying that it was time to use these excel- lently prepared (laughter) __25/ UNCLA7IED
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 89 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.