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one of the principal centers of the revolt. In re- sponse to this request, which also was supported by the US ambassador in Guatemala City, the Navy author- ized two P2V aircraft to survey the area as far south as Panama and, in addition, assigned a destroyer to patrol the Gulf of Honduras area.* 39b/ The charge that the revolt was Castro backed would be repeated throughout the period of the revolution, but no evi- dence was ever found to indicate that it was anything other than an internal uprising of dissident Guatemalans, principally elements of the Army. In fact, before the revolutionary episode came to a conclusion, the Political and Psychological warfare unit of WH/4 was to suggest that if legitimate evidence was not found to implicate Castro, that such evidence be manufactured to show that the basis for the revolution w~s in fact from Fidel Castro and his coterie. During the course of the first day's action, the Cuban forces in training at JMTRAV were alerted to prepare for any contingency. The Guatemalan troops which-had been used as part of the cover and security * Unsourced comments in the following paragraphs are based on cables reproduced in Appendix 1, Guatemalan Revolt, 13 November 1960: Miscellaneous Cables. - 34 - TofRET