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

early in December, and I Iwas instructed that------
either he or the Ambassador should advise President
Somoza about Robertson's role and arrange for an early
meeting. 25/ On 8 December 1960, Robertson had his
first meeting with President Luis Somoza and Noel
Pallais Debayle, Somoza's cousin and contact man with
JMATE. The purpose of this initial meeting was to
establish his identity with Somoza and to arrange for
the black flight for another survey team that was
coming in to examine the Puerto Cabezas area. For all
practical purposes, from this time forward until his
departure in mid-February of 1961, the conduct of a
major segment of US foreign policy was in the hands
of a CIA contract employee -- the State representatives
standing to one side as the Agency forged ahead with
its anti-Castro program. 26/*
* Not only did the State representatives stand aside,
but also ~ ~ In his transmittal of Robert-
son's first reports'c==Jreported as follows:
"CADICK [Robertson] is now operating l/
completely outside of I
because c::::::::J wants to kn-o-w-n-o----.t"h,---l~·n-g-m-o-r-e-'t'h-a'---n-
what is absolutely required that he know
regarding these activities, he has given
CADICK the essential cryptonyms, ~ I
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