“Headquarters”46 pages
- p. 26 …field, but it created negative responses from
Headquarters.
Sounding in one instance Very much like a…
- p. 27 …Upon completion of this
briefing, Guatemala cabled Headquarters that Cruz
enthusiastically endorses effort and will
assist…
- p. 28 …an incoming ,aircraft schedule,
and Guatemala cabled Headquarters to insist -- again,
* CND actually had P2V's…
- p. 32 …with reference to the accidental
death of the Brigade trainee, a cable from Guatemala
to Headquarters…
- p. 33 …According to the report
to Headquarters, Batres thought that he was being
denied access to the…
- p. 35 …29/ Following Headquarters
authorization of the payments to Alejos and Ralda,
went to Headquarters with a…
- p. 36 …Alejos had tried to raise the difference
between the $100,000 Headquarters had approved and the…
- p. 41 …the Guatemalans, no progress was made with
Headquarters on the plan. 37/*
* In fact, Ydigorasand his…
- p. 43 …How desperate the situation appeared to the GOG
was noted in a cable from Headquarters to…
- p. 44 …cable
traffic among Guatemala City, JMADD, and Headquarters
that continued for the next three to four…
- p. 46 …Requests from the field went to Headquarters
for the standby of additional B-26's that…
- p. 47 …base as commanding officer, went forward to
Headquarters with a GOG request to use JMATE's…
- p. 48 …Apparently failing to receive an answer from
Headquarters concerning the use of US pilots and Cuban…
- p. 49 …40/*
The Headquarters reaction to this request is
best explained in the words of the then…
- p. 58 …Before committing
any DPD aircraft Headquarters carefully inquired if
any "Guat air assets defected or been…
- p. 59 …53/
Even as the joint message was going forward,
Headquarters was aware of the fact that…
- p. 61 …53a/*
Before the afternoon (14 November) was over, a
cable from Headquarters went to all Latin…
- p. 62 …of the revolt
* It was reported to Headquarters that on the mOLning
of 15 Nov 60…
- p. 63 in Guatemala, Headquarters informed the base in Florida
to "discourage" Tony Varona from sending any FRD…
- p. 64 …56/ Headquarters
requested:
~contact Ydigoras and ask him
whe~ continued presence Cuban train-
ees is placing…
- p. 66 …In his cable to headquarters reporting the incident,
Chief of Base TRAV also had indicated that…
- p. 75 …67/
The cable went on to request that Headquarters contact
Roberto Alejos requesting that he remain…
- p. 94 …In any event, Headquarters sent an OPIM
cable to Guatemala recommending that Alejos and Ydigoras
-83…
- p. 98 …in any event, he cabled OPIM to Headquarters re-
porting on Ydigoras's feeling.
Roberto Alejos…
- p. 103 …in a cable from c=J to Headquarters
reading: "GOG request andD concurs immediate air-
shipment…
- p. 104 …89/
Headquarters approved the request for the addi-
tional support, but one problem did come up…
- p. 105 …Special Forces personnel until further
authorization from Headquarters. 90/
How close the ties between the Government…
- p. 115 It is the opinion of the writer that
guidance must be passed to Holloway by
Headquarters…
- p. 116 …of 1960, a survey team from Agency
Headquarters under the direction of Napoli made a trip…
- p. 121 …On Headquarter's approval of the plan
for base construction, a Base Manager will
be provided…
- p. 122 …Robertson was getting ready to depart for
Headquarters, that the air element in DPD which had…
- p. 130 …He
further stated that he did not worry concerning the
authority that Headquarters had. 30/
For…
- p. 131 …the same apparently
did not apply in Headquarters area. On 28 December
1960 the Chief of…
- p. 132 …33/
Despite the concern over the official policy for
Nicaragua, Headquarters apparently missed or ignored
one…
- p. 135 …Jan 61 according to one source, a Headquarters
'team arrived at JMTIDE to arrange for and…
- p. 136 …utilization of Puerto Cabezas, Robert-
son alerted Headquarters that the Nicaraguan situation
would soon be complicated…
- p. 138 …use of Puerto Cabezas, dragged on at Headquarters,
* To the author's knowledge, the suggestion for…
- p. 141 …On 1 February 1961,
a cable went to Robertson from Headquarters stating
"Headquarters has arranged with…
- p. 143 …together." 50/*
When Robertson departed Nicaragua for Headquarters
on 14 February 1961, he received high marks…
- p. 145 …54/ At the same time
that the Agency was holding Somoza's hand, Headquarters
was being…
- p. 150 …be destroyed on the ground, they
asked Headquarters to approach the US Navy about es-
tablishing…
- p. 151 …TIDE.* The emergency cable from TIDE to
Headquarters recommended that the radar picket be
established by…
- p. 152 …66a/ As of
25 April 1961, the crewmen were still in custody, and
Headquarters instructed TIDE…
- p. 153 …Why Headquarters was so reluctant
to approve such a meeting is, in hindsight, difficult
to understand…
- p. 154 …If not, does Headquarters
authorize briefing if Ambassador so requests. 70/ 0
This was a strange…
- p. 155 …made to President
Somoza after receiving prior Headquarters guidance.
Further, the Agency failed to meet the…
that was being raised with the Special Group, particu-
larly the concerns of Assistant Secretary of State for
American Republic Affairs, Thomas Mann. In an apparent
response to a question raised by Mann, Chief, WH Division,
sent a note to Mann on 1 December 1960, in which it was
stated:
As one of the actions to be taken in
response to the Presidential and Special
Group Meetings, we would proceed to survey,
construct, and man a staging and refueling
facility at Puerto Cabezas. This ~ction
is in accord with preliminary conversa-
tions with President Somoza. There would
at no time be a substantial force at the
installation~ and no US personnel would
be in the capital of the nation except
one agency contract employee with ion:
local experience, who would I I
I Iby dealing with the Presl ent
on thlS operation.
The initial survey team of 5-men would
fly into Puerto Cabezas on or about 7 Decem-
ber. Subject to their findings it is ex-
pected that such minimum airstrip repairs
and construction of temporary buildings
would be completed by 15 January [1961]. 22/
The Agency presumption that it had been acting
in response to the directive of the President and the
wishes of the Special Group, apparently met with oppo-
sition from Mann; for in a handwritten note on a copy
of the memorandum cited above, Dick Drain (Chief, WH/4/P&P)
recorded: