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I personally flew a total of around 15 hours on the ·four sorties. This covered a two day period. My last sortie in the late afternoon on the coast of the second day [15 Nov 60] ended at MADD. I was in- formed that the revolt was over. I heard that Col. Batres had flown to Puerto Barrios and was negotiating with the ones in charge of the revolt. I was not privileged to find out the results of the revolt, but it was over. I believe the Guatemalan Air Force cancelled our flights when they informed us of Col. Batres' actions ... I did accept my orders at the time and did support Col. Batres' command, but my bosses were Americans; and I would have responded to their orders. None were given after their first permission for me to follow Col. Batres. !±i/ Jacob D. Esterline, Chief of J~ARC project had some subsequent conversation with the Americans who were mentioned in Seigrist's report. In discussions where he had suggested that the B-26's operating Inasmuch as Egan did not give any specifics about de- planing his troops, both he and-Seigrist could be technically correct. The Deputy Chi~f of DPD claimed that 216 Cuban troops "were committed to Puerto Barrios airstrip at 0600 hours on 14 November. If it is possible, these troops will have to be evacuated if the situation worsens." Once again, however, the language is vague enough to be true, since the referenced evacuation of the Cuban troops does not specify that they were to be evacuated from Puerto Barrios. There is no argu- ment, of course, that they "were committed to Puerto Barrios airstrip," but only in what amounted to a touch-and-go landing. 45a/