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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.
“Headquarters”2 pages
MUCCIO: Well, I had good grounds to be very skeptical of Ydiogras. He was a man who preferred to be mischievous, even when it was not to his advantage. They were not under CIA or the US. These were his boys. He talked about them incessantly every time I saw him. He talked loosely about this to many others. His lack of perception and sensitivity was evident in the baffling attempt to use Cubans to suppress the revolt of his army on November 13, 1960. I heard of his plan to inject Cubans into this purely Guatemalan fray as follows: Midnight, Saturday, November 13, a third of the Guatemalan armed forces "took off" against Ydigoras. At La Aurora Air Force headquarters, junior officers disarmed and isolated the Chief of Staff. Shortly thereafter some had mis- givings, could not agree on the next move and decided to let the Americans know what was underway, particularly since they had received word that Ydigoras had secretly ordered some DC-3 planes loaded with Cubans flown to Puerto Barrios where the revolt was most active. They'd first called in Lieutenant Colonel (William J.) Cavoli, who was the air attache. Cavoli didn't know what to do and called Colonel John Berry, senior Army attache. Just as soon as Berry arrived there and saw what was underway he called my deputy (Robert F.) Bob Corrigan. Bob 'Corrigan said, "this is something the ambassador should know about right away." The whole American group carne up td the embassy residence. The liaison man carne in a few minutes later and said that the Cuban trainees were already airlifted and should have landed by now in Puerto Barrios. I turned around to the liaison man -- he had instant access to Ydiogoras at all times -- and I said, "You go tell President Ydigoras that those Cubans should not be used in Puerto Barrios; that if they have landed to keep them at the airport; if they have not landed to return them back to It What was the name of that airport? - 254 -
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