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.;yelP SECRtT to review activities, determine the status of commitments, and prepare a brief re- port for Chief, Branch 4. 59/ In another Branch meeting soon after the one just-mentioned, Esterline reemphasized, as he and others would do throughout the course of the operation, the need for security practices designed to protect the fact of Agency involvement in this covert opera- tion. He also indicated the considerable degree of cooperation which already was being required from other services. Dave Phillips provided a specific example of this, emphasizing that without the close cooperation of the united States Navy, it would have been difficult to transport the two radio transmitters which were going to be installed on Swan Island. Moreover, Phillips reported that a crew of Seabees would be responsible for consbructing the facilities to house the transmitters and the quarters for per- sonnel who would conduct the propagahda effort from Swan Island. Because the activities then established on Swan Island were under the control of the Federal Aviation Administration, C. Tracy Barnes (the A/OOP/A) was to meet with the Director of FAA, Gen. Elwood Quesada, to clea~ with him the problems that were - 85 -