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, a specific offer through the CIA "to groups favorably regarded by us [of] training facilities in the Peten area of Guatemala." 2/* B. Establishing Contacts with Ydigoras and Alejos It was more than two months following President Eisenhower's announcement of an anti-Castro program before Chief JMATE, Jacob D. Esterline, and I Robert K. Davis, met with representatives of ~-~ the GOGi but in the interval between the announcement and Esterline's first meeting, Davis had already estab~ lished contact with Roberto Alejos -- the principal representative of President Ydigoras Fuentes in all * It is interesingto observe that this specific reference to the use of the Peten area in Guatemala was reworded for use by the DCI in a memorandum to the members of the Special Group to read "this train- ing and holding [of anti-Castro Cubans] would be conducted in a secure remote area of a friendly Latin American country." 3/ The Special Group 5412 was a group composed of the Assistant Secretaries of State and Defense, the DCI, the President's National Security Advise~ and a CIA Secretariat. Its principal purpose was to review proposed para- military and clandestine operations and to provide guidance on such proposals for the President. Presi- dent ~isenhower made extensive use of this group, but President Kennedy largely abandoned it until late in the period of the Bay of Pigs operation.