Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation- Volume 2- Part 1

in peace without further interference from the United
States." Carlos Alejos said further that his brother,
Roberto, had been authorized by President Ydigoras to
deal with Somoza and Truj~llo on the matter; and what
Roberto Alejos was looking fOr, because of this respon-
sibility, was some reaction from the US, directing his
attention not to the US Department of State but to the
Central Intelligence Agency.
Chief, WH/4 apparently suggested that there was
some problem in dealing with Trujillo because of his
"unsavory" reputation; and this suggestion was not
particularly well received by Ambassador Alejos, who,
with some heat replied that Trujillo may
be unpopular, but he is certainly anti-
Communist and prepared to do something,
whereas the alleged great friends of the
United States, such as Figueres of Costa
Rica and President Betancourt of Venezuela,
have made many friendly noises but never
once have made a firm offer of real estate
or material [sic] support to the battle
against Castro.
The Ambassador went on to indicate that since the
collapse of the invasion he had been getting what he
considered a rather unfavorable reaction from Adolf
Berle arid other members of the State Department with
whom he had been holding discussions. This, perhaps,
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