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- 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…
In response to a question of how it happened
that he was sent to Guatemala, Esterline remarked:
state said, "Oh, we don't want to touch
that," and Ydigoras said, "well, I'm not
going to do it unless it is signed by some
responsible individual." We looked around
the Agency and said to J. C. [King], "J. C.,
this kind of ... " "No, no," he said. "I
don't think I ought to do that." He said,
"Jake, you are in charge of the project,
why don't you do it." So being a brash
young man I said, "Well, we're never going
to get this thing going unless somebody
signs it."
So I flew to Guatemala black with Roberto
Alejos, who is now a substantial banker in
Miami, and with Bob Davis, who! . !
I lat the time, and I thlnk, with
the powers and full knowledge of the Ambas-
sador, although I didn't meet him because
I was there black. I went in illegally
and left illegally. We drew up the partic-
ulars of the base agreement -- if you will,
a Status of Forces Agreement.
When asked if Bissell and Dulles were aware that
he had been sent to negotiate with Ydigoras, Esterline's
response was: "Oh, hell yes! Ohl hell yes! I went as
an instructed delegate from Washington. The wording
'an expendable pawn.' No, I went on specific instruc-
tion from Bissell and Dulles.'" 68/*
* Despite Esterline's conviction that a piece of paper
actually passed between himself and Ydigoras, the
author thinks it more likely that Esterline's story,
as noted above, reflects an honest confusion of the
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