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...:rf;'P SEeR Ear meeting, Esterline emphasized that training at the Fort Randolph and Fort Sherman areas of Panama was going to be extremely limited; and since there would be no training areas in the United States, third country training activities would need to be estab- lished. He emphasized again that secrecy was of paramount importance if the operation was to succeed, and stressed that the establishment of a Government- in-exile was a key point to making the planned opera- tion credible. Esterline further indicated that such a government hopefully could be announced by the early part of April and that the Headquarters for such a government could be located either in Puerto Rico or Costa Rica. Esterline also made an appeal for personnel to staff both the Panama training activity and Base Two, the Coral Gables Headquarters which later would be known as JMWAVE. One interesting point made at this first meeting was that: Mr. [Scudder] Georgia reported that the DDS Offices concerned had nominated nearly all of the personnel required by 1 and 15 April respectively. Action was being taken to make all these aVailable at once ... [and] it was agreed that DDS representatives would meet once a week - 84 - TAP SF0R FT