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Al though he was IL ~ -----lin July of 1960, Lou Napoli was sent TOY to Managua to participate in a meeting between Agency representatives and the President of Nicaragua in September 1960. Accompanied by 1 _ Walter S. Holloway, the CIA representatives met with President Somoza on 17 and 19 September 1960. ~ The purpose of Napoli's TOY was to inform Somoza that the Frente Revolucionario Oemocratico (FRD) was the organ- ization of anti-Castro Cuban exiles which deserved the support of Somoza's government. This information for Somoza was in response to a question he had raised with Napoli in the previously mentioned June meeting. l! Somoza agreed that he would receive an FRD repre- sentative to discuss the situation and in addition indi- cated that he would make available a landing strip at Puerto Cabezas, a training site for about 100 men, and a shortwave radio station.* The Nicaraguan leader was not at all reluctant to raise pointed questions with * Th~ radio station, incidentally, that had been used during the course of operation PBSUCCESS which resulted in the ouster of the leftist Arbenz government in Guat- emala in 1958.