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

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G. The Special Forces Trainers -- Pragmatism and Patience
As mentioned in the introduction to the discussion
of the relations with Guatemala, a second episode in~
volving the Agency in a unique situation with the GOG
concerned the use of US Army Special Forces personnel
to train the Cuban ground forces. Almost immediately
following Eisenhower's approval of the anti-Castro
program in March 1960, WH/4 faced the problem of acquir-
ing trained personnel to instruct the cadre being pre-
pared for small unit guerrilla warfare operations; and
later there were numerous difficulties in acquiring
* unlikel Jduring the course of the activ-
i ties relatea to tile Ba of Pigs, I Iwas
very positively identified in all of the actions in-
volving Agency personnel and he "was particularly close
to the center of power with his relationships to
Roberto Alejos and President Ydigoras. While the
author has no way of knowing what Colonel E~anrs re-
action was tO~~-m Billy Campbell indicated that
relations between and the air operations at JMADD
were also sometim ther strained and that he, too,
had been threatened with removal It is not
known, however, whether Campbell erring to ,------~---,
or to~ Iwho carne in as
DecemBer 1960 - even though r---L-----,,;=~~..-.-;=---.o~,-------'
I ~for Cuban ops from Dece
of the invasion. Whoever made
said that he ran theJMADD air
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