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TOP SECRI:T served as liaison officer with the Amphibious Forces Atlantic in Norfolk, Virginia -- a pertinent assign- ment for his transfer to Project JMARC. Lt. Col. Egan's military record showed a well- trained infantry officer who had served overseas in the European Theater during the course of World War IIi an infantry officer including an infantry train- ing officer in much of the period following World War IIi and a staff officer in the Special Warfare Division of the United States Army in 1958, serving with the Director of Plans, in Washington from 1958 to 1960. Immediately prior to his assignment to Project JMATE, Colonel Egan had been on the Operations and Training Staff of a Joint Support Group, head- quarteredin Washington. Egan EOD'd with Project J~~TE, 27 ~une 1960, and Hawkins on 29 August of 1960. 121/ Both officers received high marks from Mr. Bissell and Jake Esterline, an~particularly from Dick Drain, who stated: I thought they [Hawkins and Egan] were first rate ••. I mean first rate, not com- pared with the jaded World War II memory, but first rate in terms of officers then serving in the armed forces of the United States. The Hawkins selection was an excellent one. I don't myself, know how - 133 - reF 3ECrtl!T