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.
else. I took the position that I had not personally seen anything going on, which was the reason why I dismissed Ydigoras' repeated invitations to go up and see how fine the boys were doing. I could legitimately say I had not seen them myself. That was very help- ful, particularly when it became a public issue.* MOSS: Yes. Do you recall how Ydigoras responded to the failure of the invasion? Do you recall his mood, his attitude? MUCCIO: Well, his whole attitude was that some of the people in Washington were scared of their own shadow. MOSS: "!. How about your CAS liaison man? Was he still there after it went off? MUCCIO: For a while, yes. MOSS: Do you recall his reaction? MUCCIO: Well, that something had gone wrong. MOSS: Nothing specific? MUCCIO: He was there for a while because the question as to what to do with all this equipment that had been brought down there came up. Now I had a role to play in that. MOSS: All right. Let me sh~ft the topic somewhat. Well, let me ask you first ... I would be negligent if I didn't ask you about your personal feeling about the operation: its wisdom, its implementation, and so on, with hindsight of course, and realizing that this is one man's perspective. Would you comment in general on it? * I lin the American Embassy. - 253 -
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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.