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A. Operational control of all air forces and facilities required and employed in JMARC will be assigned to Chief, JMARC Task Force. B. Chief, JMARC Task Force will exercise this control through a newly created staff section for air operations in the JMARC Task Force. C. AC/DPD will serve as the Chief of the JMARC air section. The staff of the air section will include any and all DPD per- sonnel when actually employed on JMARC business. D. For DPD business unrelated to J!1ARC, AC/DPD will continue to report in the usual manner through the DD/P. When and if questions arise concerning the alloca- tion of DPD resources as between JMARC and other requirements and activities, such questions will be resolved by DD/P. 11/* This was a decision that even retrospectively Mr. Bissell stood by; and because it dealt specifically with a decision that caused bitter intra-Agency feelings, it is quoted here at some length. In discussing this * It is interesting to note that when approached on the subject of giving Chief, WH/4 the authority he requested (through Hawkins's memo of 5 Oct 60) over DPD, C. Tracy Barnes, AnOP/A, one of Mr. Bissell's principal assistants: "stated that he could see no objection to the proposal and that he thought such a move would be approved by Mr. Bissell since this was in keeping with Mr. Bissell's concept of a task force organization." 12/ Mr. Barnes must have failed to do his homework. His comment was made at a 6 Sep- tember meeting, but Hawkins's memo didn't go forward until 5 October. Presumably, Barnes should have been able to find out how Bissell felt well before Hawkins's memo went forward. - 12 -