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-:rop SECRET On 1 July 1960, Jak~ Esterline received an inter- esting telephone call from. General Cushman, contain- ing two messages from the Vice President. First, Mr. Nixon was interested to know if there were any obsta- cles that the Agency was encountering vis-a-vis other agencies in support of JMATE; and if there were, the Vice President indicated that he personally would help to resolve such problems. The second request was a bit more sticky. Gen. Cushman said that the Vice Presiden~~has commissioned him to keep Mr. Willi"am Pawley happy and, in connection with·· this, he has also been instructed to keep Mr. Pawley briefed on how things are moving. General Cushman said he realized that this is much against our desire, as concerns Mr. Pawley, but the fact remains that he [Pawley] is a ."big fat political cat" and, as such, the Vice President cannot completely ignore him. 20/ Esterline allowed that he understood the General's problem and suggested that with a few hours advance warning the Agency would provide the Vice President, , or the General, with such briefing materials as nec- essary for any given meeting with Mr. Pawley after first clearing the paper with the appropriate agency officials and within the security regulations that applied to Mr. Pawley. Esterline indicated in his - 263 - Ter SECRET-