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

in the Zone also was used by Agency aircraft during
the course of the project. CIA's negotiations for
use of these Panama sttes, therefore, were with the
US Departments of Defense and Army, rather than with
the government of Panama.
As the anti-Castro program of the US was imple-
mented, a sometimes embarrassing relationship with
the United Kingdom developed because of the frequency
with which aircraft of the anti-Castro Brigade made
emergency landings on the airstrip at Grand Caymen
Island and, in one instance, at Kingston, Jamaica.
Agency personnel assigned to the anti-Castro project
were not directly involved in the negotiations with
the senior UK representatives for release of either
the aircraft or their crews. Acting upon instructions
received from the DCI level, CIA,sl _
___________________Iwas principally responsible for re-
solving such problems; and, consequently, s~ch nego-
tiations are not subject to discussion in this volume.*
* The topic is discussed in Volume I of this history,
Air Operations.
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