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l:GP 8~CrtET senior Agency personnel -- notably C. Tracy Barnes, the AOOP/A -- began to question the Agency's rela- tionship with Mr. William Pawley, particularly as Pawley's support for Rubio Padilla was apparently intended to establish a group of Pawley supported . Cubans in exile in opposition to the FRD, the Agency's supported exile group. Barnes's concern was that if the US continued to support the extremely conserv- ative element represented by ~awley's group, it would be charged that any anti-Castro action under- taken by the US would be "on the basis of protecting economic royalists." What Barnes stressed to Mr. Bissell, the DOP, was the need for the US to decide whether or not it wished to be charged with supporting reactionary movements in Latin America, not only in Cuba, but in the rest of the Central American and Caribbean , areas as well. Once having made up its own mind, Barnes suggested that CIA's position be worked out with State "and thereafter take it to Mr. Nixon, giving him at that time, a thorough and complete briefing so that there can be no doubt in his mind - 253 - mp SECRET