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

two US companies located in the Puerto Cabezas area
would play significant roles in the Agency's plans for
Puerto Cabezas. Facilities of the Nicaraguan Long
Leaf Pine Company {NIPCO}, a lumber company controlling
the terminal facilities, and the Standard Fruit Company,
controlling the rail line and the docking facility,
were critical to both planned air and maritime opera-
tions. 10/
In return for his support, Somoza wanted assurance
that once action against Castro started, there would
be no backing down by the USG; and he also wanted to
be sure that the proper levels of the US Government
were sanctioning the activities of the survey team.
When he was told that the US Ambassador was thoroughly
familiar with and involved in the planning, he was
somewhat mollified; but he did raise the question of
wanting a contact to whom he could turn if he believed\
that the ·operation was not going as it should -- or
if he had complaints or suggestions to offer. Somoza
was told in this connection that the best thing he
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could do would be to go to Holloway. As before, Napoli
made clear that these talks were exploratory and that
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