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

the President told him that he looked forward to his
return. Napoli, in the hope of maintaining the close
and supportive relationship with the Nicaraguan Presi-
dent, expressed the desire to be able -- in the future
-- to pass on full and complete details of planned ac-
tivities that might relate to Nicaragua. 71/
The other postscript concerns the apparent reluc-
tance of newly appointed Ambassador Brown to step on
the Agency's toes. In June 1961, the Agency had ap-
parently evolved a plan for using some of the Cuban
pilots who had been trained during Project JMATE as
instructors for the Nicaraguan Air Force. Ambassador
Brown in objecting to this, requested that the follow-
ing message be sent CIA:
Now that Cuban invasion is over and we
are closing out the NIC operation, it seems
to me that we should not open up the pos-
sibility of. raising future problems or bad
local press by bringing back Cuban exiles
as instructors. It seems we could avoid
all chance of adverse local reaction by
the use of already existing mechanisms such
as Col. Hardee and his unit which capable
of doing good job. I would not like to
hamper progress of negotiations, but I
would like to express the opinion, based
on my present knowledge of the situation,
that I would prefer no Cubans be used as
instructors. 72/
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