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, :fOP SECRET the project and the office of the DDP In point of fact, such restrictive measures were somewhat meaningless inso- far as keeping awareness of the project's activities away from PP/PMG. The A/DDP/P granted permission to PP/C/PMG to read the daily project traffic, (with Esterline's knowledge and permission). Esterline personally knew the majority of the PP/PMG senior officers, and in no time he had drafted six or seven of these, including the Deputy Chief, PMG, for assignment to JMARC ••• This, of course, was valuable as a built-in penetration of JMARC in the best FI and CI tradition.* 16/ Early in February of 1960, Allen Dulles was briefed in general terms on the planning that was being initiated by WH Division, and at the same time J. C. King told the Director "that the Branch concept was used [in establishing WH/4] rather than the term Task Force for greater security and to simplify chan- nels of conunand. ll The Director subsequently explained to the Special Group (3 February 1960) some of the activities that were being undertaken, noting that within the next week or two, the Group would receive * The crypt for theWH/4 anti-Castro operation was initially JMARC. Following compromise of this crypt, the project became JMATE (sometime in the period be- tween 6-13 December 1960). Throughout this volume the project will be identified as JMATE, except in direct quotations. - 46 - "fAn qFPR PT