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T..QP SEER: ET they are located, the use of U.S. contract personnel will correspondingly be cut down. staff personnel will assist in the training of all crews but will not be used in opera- tions. 131/ Not only were such contract employees authorized, but by early November 1960 a cable from Headquarters to the Forward Operations Base noted: In view degree risk involved rendezvous- type mission request Case Officer advise all Maritime contract personnel bonus this type mission be hereafter $100.00. Bonus for Cuban territory beach landings or caching would remain $500.00. 132/ By the early fall of 1960, the question of rota- tion of staff personnel for Project JMATE had become a serious matter. Many of those who had initially joined the project had corne in on 90-day rotation periods, and in a cable to Headquarters, Ernie Sparks, the overall Liaison Officer for Project JMATE for COS Guatemala, requested that Headquarters approve a ro- tational plan since:, Most personnel adjusted family and business problems to period they told they be absent and fact they on duty seven days a week as well as being con- fined to training areas which lack recreation facilities. 133/ Bill Eisemann, who was Chief of Support for WH/4, was particularly critical of the 90-day TDY assignments, saying: - 141 -