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of US policy for Guatemala. There 1S little question that in his choice of working with the Agency rather than with the US Ambassador in Guatemala, John J. Muccio, Ydigoras was no fool. As [ [, who D Fn 1 December 1960 indicated, -----------;=~-- relations between '--I -----ll and the Ambassador were strained to the point where the I I·ioperated al- most as a separate entity until the departure of the Ambassador in the Fall of 1961." 92/* If the oral history interview which Muccio made for the John F. Kennedy Library in the Spring of 1971 is indicative of his character, it is understandable why relations between Muccio and Agency personnel were strained. In that interview, the pertinent portions of which are reproduced in Appendix 3, Muccio tried to indicate on the one hand tha~ he.was uninformed about CIA activities in Guatemala, yet on the other hand he * As indicated earlier in this chapter, J I overlapped as L rand, 1n fact, each i--L-----------------,-J in his own particular bal~'lw~l~C~~=-r---r-~W~l~~~~e~ Bay of Pigs Operation, and ~with the operation I f MUCC10 s successor, John Bell, was named 10 November 1961. 93/ TOP S