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of to the reception party, and we had people shoot themselves in the tail and land in Montego Bay. 21/ In fact, Drain claimed that at one point when the Cuban air trainees in Guatemala got out of hand -- he was forced to go to Mr. Bissell to ask that a non- DPD officer be put in charge of the Retalhuleu air base. Drain said that he drafted a Letter of Instruc- tion fori Ito become Chief of Base where heretofore DPD had claimed that only an Air Officer could run an airbase.\L ~\ in fact, took over as Administrator of the Base. 22/* As apparent from the chart on the chain of com- mand for air operations in Project JMATE, the man caught in the middle between DPD and WH/4 was Lt. Col. George Gaines, Jr.** His observations on the * Questioned about Cabell's role in target selection and evaluation of air operations at any stage of the JMATE activity, Col. Beerli responded: \ He [Cabell] saw it. He made a very specific effort to see it all. He was very concerned. We made visits to his office frequently to show him what plans we had. He told me, being an Air Officer he said: "I feel that I should be in- formed at this point just what is going on." 23/ ** Chart 1 follows p. 22. - 22 - T~