Word: buenavista
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last December. As the plans for a frontal invasion took shape, CIA men went to Guatemala and arranged with Rancher-Businessman Roberto Alejos* to use three of his properties-coffee plantations named Helvetia and La Suiza near the town of Retalhuleu, and a cotton farm called San José Buenavista, 35 miles from the Pacific port of San José-as camps to train an army of invasion ("No charge." said Alejos. "Just remember me in Havana"). Through Alejos, the CIA also arranged a $1,000,000 hurry-up surfacing of a 5,000-ft. airstrip at Retalhuleu. Starting...