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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.
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DEP ARTMENT OF STATE CON FjENTIAL FROM: GUATEI1ALA CITY COpy Control: 7063 NO: 223, NOVEMBER 13, 3 P.M. TO: SECRETARY OF STATE Reed: Nov 13, 1960 7:50 P.M. NIACT PASS ARMY AND AIR FORCE REFERENCES: EMBTEL 222 [ ZACAPA] XACAVA/(SECOND MILITARY ZONE HEADQUARTERS) AND PUERTO BARRIOS MILITARY BASE INCLUDING AIRPORT ARE IN HANDS UNIDENTIFIED REBELS. PUZZLE IS WHETHER ATTACK ON CUARTEL GENERAL FAILED OR WAS PLANNED MERELY TO OBTAIN VEHICLES AND ARMS AND AMMUNITION (WHICH WERE OBTAINED). EMBASSY OFFICER JUST TELEPHONED FROM BARRIOS SAYING GOVERNOR lXABEL DEPARTMENT ARRESTED AND MATIAS de GALVEX RADIO CALLING FOR ANTI-GOVE&~MENT REVOLT -- BUT SIGNIFICANT THAT SO FAR REBEL BROADCASTS MENTION NO NAMES OR PARTY AFFILIATIONS. MID-MO&~ING GAF STRAFED XACAVA AND BARRIOS WITH ROCKETS AND 50 CALIBRE MACHINE GUNS DESTROYING SEVERAL TRUCKS. EMBASSY UNDERSTM~DS GOG PLANS ATTEMPT RETAKE BARRIOS BASE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE WITH AIRLIFTED TROOPS FROM GUATE- MALA CITY PRECEDED BY GAF STRAFING. YDIGORAS DECLARED STATE OF SIEGE AND CONGRESS MEETING 4 P.M. TO RATIFY IT. (CAS RECEIVING CONFLICTING REPORTS RE NATURE MOVEMENT.) EMBASSY IGNORANT WHETHER MOVEMENT CASTROITE OR MERELY ANTI-GOVERN1lliNT AND TO WHAT EXTENT ARMY DEFECTIONS IN- VOLVED. MILITARY GARRISON GUATEMALA CITY AND GAF APPARENTLY LOYAL AND NO ADVERSE INFORMATION YET FROM REST COUNTRY OTHER THM~ BARRIOS AND XACAVA [ZACAPA]. MUCCIO Note: Passed Army & Air Force Ready by Mr. Godfrey (ARA) 8:30 P.M. 11/13 CWO-JSW -17Y- CO~FI/~TLAL
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