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in the Zone also was used by Agency aircraft during the course of the project. CIA's negotiations for use of these Panama sttes, therefore, were with the US Departments of Defense and Army, rather than with the government of Panama. As the anti-Castro program of the US was imple- mented, a sometimes embarrassing relationship with the United Kingdom developed because of the frequency with which aircraft of the anti-Castro Brigade made emergency landings on the airstrip at Grand Caymen Island and, in one instance, at Kingston, Jamaica. Agency personnel assigned to the anti-Castro project were not directly involved in the negotiations with the senior UK representatives for release of either the aircraft or their crews. Acting upon instructions received from the DCI level, CIA,sl _ ___________________Iwas principally responsible for re- solving such problems; and, consequently, s~ch nego- tiations are not subject to discussion in this volume.* * The topic is discussed in Volume I of this history, Air Operations. - lV -