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President of the United States himself, Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Agency's request which was to touch off the brouhaha was initiated by Col. Jack Hawkins (USMC), Chief, WH/4/PM on 19 October 1960. After approval through the chain of command to the DDP was formalized (16 November 1960), then J. C. King, Chief, Western Hemisphere Division, prepared a memorandum for the Mobilization and Military Personnel Division (MMPD), Office of Personnel, CIA asking that 38 US Army Special Forces personnel be acquired for training JMARC assets in a foreign area. In his memorandum, Col. King noted that Captain Burns Spore, Office of Special Operations, Department of Defense had been informed about the re- quirement; but since no official action had yet been taken by DOD regarding the spec~al Forces personnel, MMPD was being asked to make it official. At a subsequent meeting between representatives of WH/4 and Captain Spore, the DOD representative apparently got his back up about the lack of informa- tion .that DOD -- in his opinion at any rate -- had about the Agency's operational plans against Cuba. Inasmuch as the Agency's request came about the same - 60 -