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

increment in the number of" trainees into the TRAV
area was reported to have gotten a negative response
from Alejos. 60/
But following receipt of his copy of the cable,
________________ 1 sent an OPIM to the director pointing
out that COB TRAV had failed to properly coordinate
his cable for, in truth, Alejos was reported to
have been "enthusiastic about additional 400 men ln
training program" and, furthermore, according to
c==J, Alejos had taken a nurnberof steps to place
additional facilities at the disposal of the in-
corning trainees, including additional housing and
the laying of a pipeline to insure that there would
be no shortage of water at JMTRAV. c==Jchewed on
COB TRAV for failure to coordinate because this
was the sort of thing which could lead to the brBak-
down of the cover story and embarrassment to the
GOG. message closed on the following note:
~wishes to make a matter of record
for~efit COB's future action and DIR
information the fact that COB's will not
(repeat not) release cables to HQS on
. policy or political matters until sub-
jects have been properly staffed out with
o Dintends to relieve COB from
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