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Guatemala or removing it to the US should be raised again with the Special Group. The Agency's repre- sentatives agreed to this suggestion "with the strict- est proviso that no move from Guatemala could or should be made until adequate staging facilities in the Zone of the Interior have been prepared." 98/ Tracy Barnes put the question of moving the base from Guatemala to the Zone of the Interior in a somewhat different context than had been suggested by Esterline and J. C. King. Barnes recommended con- sideration be given, among other items, to: The fact that a move from the present training sites to the US should not be made too hurriedly and the importance of avoiding a decision at a later date that the training in the US is a bar to opera- tional use. I realize that this latter point would be a complete contradiction of the present theory but, after all, there is an intervening election; and political views can shift ·so that every- thing possible should be done to avoid our getting ourselves into the box where we move to the US for one reason and then find that the US move is used against us to prevent or limit ultimate operations.* 100/ One additional point which was made by Jake Esterline and J. C. King in their conversations with Source reference No. 99 not used. - 114 - J:OP Sf-CR FT