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the Cubans. Gaines even suggested the possibility of moving the training activity to Nicaragua -- limiting the training to the actual number of pilots required to carry out the air strike and the support types who would be a minimum number required to support that strike effort. 47/ Difficulties between administrative and opera- tional personnel at MADD continued from the fall of 1960 through the early winter of 1961 -- the situation being further complicated by the desire ofl~ ~ = to play. a more active role vis a vis MADD. Toward mid-February 1961, for example, \ \asked DPD to appoint a Chief of Air Operations for MADD and to station him permanently at the Base. Because of the numerous shifts and/or rotation of personnel be- tween the airbase and Headquarters, I ras apparently unable to keep track of who was on first. IL- _ cabled Headquarters that lito prevent this type confusion now 1 and in future,I~ ~I will not allow any personnel to depart MADD without his concurrence." 48/ Apparently Headquarters was not too enthralled with the suggestions from~ and a 2 March 1961 cable to MADD indicated that the movement of personnel and - 129 -