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Tel' ~ECR:E+ memorandum that he immediately' informed the Deputy Director for Plans, and the Assistant Deputy Director for Plans, Mr. Bissell and Mr. Barnes, respectively, about the call from General Cushman.* Jake Esterline apparently took the Vice Presi- dent's offer to help CIA with difficulties it might ·have with other agencies to heart. In a memorandum from C. Tracy Barnes, concerning a more effective commercial cover for Radio Swan, it appears, from Barnes's response, that Esterline must have suggested .. that the services of Vice President Nixon be engaged to resolve a difficulty between the Agency and the FCC over the use of commercial advertising to make * The following interesting comments qlso appeared in Esterline's memorandum on the conversation with General Cushman: This information [regarding Cushman's telephone call] could not be given to Col. King, as he had just departed on a three- day trip. This memorandum will be avail- able to Col. King, however, upon his re- turn Wednesday, 6 July. Contrary to the opinions of many who have sug- gested that Col. J. C. King was read out of the anti- Castro operation, this memorandum would indicate that, in fact, extreme care was being taken to make sure that J. C. King was read into the act. - 264 -