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personnel from the project. As usual, Wilson was quite sympathetic; and he immediately called Brigadier General Frank A. Bailey, Commander of the Arkansas Guard. Gen. Bailey was told that the agency representatives would shortly be in contact with him and that he should fully support CIA's request for officer and enlisted personnel. When the contact was made with Gen. Bailey, he was fully 'cooperative as he had been in the previous instances where Arkansas ANG personnel had been provided to Project JMATE. 91/ As D-Day drew nearer, the underemployment of ANG personnel apparently was a thing of the past; for by 1 March 1961, the Agency again had made advances to the Air Force about the possibility of using USAF personnel in Nicaragua. As in the past, however, DOD's position was that another secret agreement -- this time with the government of Nicaragua -- would be necessary before military personnel could be utilized.* Even as the approach was being made to OSO/DOD, Jake Esterline was suggesting to the DPD that ANG support * As detailed in Volume II, a secret agreement had to be 'negotiated with Guatemala before DOD would assign US Army Special Forces trainers to JMTRAV. - 74 -