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

E. November Revolt -- Policy Makers vs Pragmatists
For all practical purposes, the voice of the US
Government in Guatemala during the months when the
ground and air training bases -- JMTRAV and JMADD,
respectively -- were being established was that of
the Central Intelligence Agency. Agency training
programs were developed with the full and complete
cooperation of the President of Guatemala, his prin-
cipal spokesman, Roberto Alejos, and other high GOG
officials. Such interest as the Department of State
evidenced in the affairs of Guatemala were concerned
principally with embarrassments that might result
from Cuban charges in the OAS or in the UN relating
to US support for Cuban exiles training in the Guate-
malan area. By mid October of 1960 this point was
causing some consternation to Assistant Secretary of
State, Thomas Mann. 35/ From this time forward until
his replacement as Assistant Secretary of State for
American Republican Affairs, Mann was the Agency's
prejudicial were unquestionably necessary in view of
the fact that CIA was forced to use the Guatemalan
training sites. The Agency's preference for the use
of CONUS facilities for the training had been continu-
ously denied.