“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…
against Puerto Barrios had been flown by Guatemalan
pilots, Jake
was challenged several times by people
from the United Fruit Company who were
there at Puerto Barrios at the time, and
they said "look, we have been living a-
round Guatemala for years and we have
never seen Guatemalan pilots fly or shoot
with the precision that these fellows
shot. They didn't kill anybody." (Any-
body that they weren't supposed to kill,
I guess is the way to put it.) There
wasn't a stray bullet anywhere, they
strictly hit military targets. But
there was a case of a green light from
State Department, and then they said
they didn't mean it. It was academic,
because it was done. 47/*
* Esterline's additional comments are indicative of
the confusion that one faces in trying to sort out
details of the Bay of Pigs, 16 years after the event.
In contrast to Bissell's previously noted remarks
with reference to the cable requesting permission
to act in response to Ydigoras's request, Jake noted
that:
We got this urgent call requesting the
use of our troops. We got it, and we looked
at it and didn't know what to do with it.
We called State Department and said, "We
suppose this is critical. The whole thing
is going to pot." I suppose that it was
Rubottom or somebody at that level over
there, that we called. They said "Well, I
guess you had better give him what he wants."
-So we gave him what he wanted, and that
was about the time that it was in motion;
and we got a call back from State Depart-
ment saying they'd checked, and they didn't
mean it, but it was in motion at that point. 48/