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beginning on 20 May, I I was not to approve any departures of Special Forces personnel until further authorization from Headquarters. 90/ How close the ties between the Government of Guatemala and the Agency's representatives were was revealed late in April 1961 at a meeting that was called at the request of Carlos Alejos, the Ambassador to the United States from Guatemala. He requested that Jake Esterline meet with him at the embassy residence to discuss some sensitive information that he had recently received from his brother, Roberto. The sensitive information concerned an offer that General Truj i"llo of the Dominican Republic had reportedly made to both President Ydigoras and to President Somoza of Nicaragua to make available to them, in the Dominican Republic, airfields, training sites, and other facili- ties needed to continue to wage war against Castro. According to the report that Esterline prepared on the meeting "the only quid pro quo involved would be that the United States give sanction to this arrangement in thB first instance and, in the second instance, agree to let Trujillo live out the rest of his days