{"id":2056,"date":"1960-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1960-10-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/cms\/?p=2056"},"modified":"1960-10-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1960-10-07T00:00:00","slug":"1161071960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1960\/10\/07\/1161071960\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/7\/1960"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;OCT 7, 1960: Ra\u00fal Roa, Cuba&#8217;s Foreign Minister, denounces U.S. plans to invade Cuba, based on intelligence information obtained by Cuba&#8217;s security services: \u2018In the Finca Helvetia, located in the municipality of El Palmer, adjoining the departments of Retalhuleu and Quetzaltenango, acquired recently by Roberto Alejos, brother of the Guatemalan ambassador in the U.S. . . numerous exiles and adventurers are receiving training under the command of \u00a0North American military men. In August and September, more than a hundred airmen and American technical military personnel entered Guatemala. In the La Aurora airport bomber aircraft have been seen. The public rumor is that they serve a double mission to attack Cuba or to simulate a Cuban attack against Guatemala\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Bay of Pigs Invasion\/Playa Giron: A Chronology of Events,&#8221; The National Security Archive, NSArchive2.gwu.edu<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;OCT 7, 1960: Ra\u00fal Roa, Cuba&#8217;s Foreign Minister, denounces U.S. plans to invade Cuba, based on intelligence information obtained by Cuba&#8217;s security services: \u2018In the Finca Helvetia, located in the municipality of El Palmer, adjoining the departments of Retalhuleu and Quetzaltenango, acquired recently by Roberto Alejos, brother of the Guatemalan ambassador in the U.S. . [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1960\/10\/07\/1161071960\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from 10\/7\/1960<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2033,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1960\/06\/29\/936291960\/","url_meta":{"origin":2056,"position":0},"title":"6\/29\/1960","author":"AmarkData","date":"June 29, 1960","format":false,"excerpt":"\"29.06.60 American companies Texaco, Esso and Shell, Cuba\u2019s longstanding oil suppliers, cut their oil supply and refused to refine the crude oil imported from the USSR, as a result of the pressures exerted by the U.S. government.\u201d \"Dwight D. Eisenhower (R), Timeline,\" Cuba versus Blockade: Cuban People's Website,\u00a02007","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2073,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1960\/10\/31\/13310311960\/","url_meta":{"origin":2056,"position":1},"title":"10\/31\/1960","author":"AmarkData","date":"October 31, 1960","format":false,"excerpt":"\"OCT 31, 1960: Cable from CIA Headquarters to senior agency officer in Guatemala outlines plan for amphibious invasion of Cuba by assault force of at least 1,500 men who will receive conventional military training.\u201d \"The Bay of Pigs Invasion\/Playa Giron: A Chronology of Events,\" The National Security Archive, NSArchive2.gwu.edu","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2071,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1960\/10\/26\/13110261960\/","url_meta":{"origin":2056,"position":2},"title":"10\/26\/1960","author":"AmarkData","date":"October 26, 1960","format":false,"excerpt":"\"OCT 26, 1960: The press officer for the Guatemalan president admits that there are military personnel in more than twenty fincas [farm\/estate] in the country but denies they are related to any invasion of Cuba. 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