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do it, what were the capabilities -- it boiled down to where I finally retained the authority of operating airplanes sent me on base. 27/* One can find some signs of progress being made in the management of air operations by mid-summer of 1960. In August, WH Division had agreed and DD/P had approved a tactical air capability for JMATE; operation of the air arm was to be DPD's responsibil- itYi and it would be budgeted out of funds for JMATE. 29/ Even agreement on funding, however, did not end the bickering between the two components. One of the principal problems they faced was one of communica- tion between the elements in Headquarters area -- that is DPD at 1717 H Street and WH/4 Headquarters down on Ohio Drive -- and also communications problems that had to do with instructions between Headquarters and the field. In early October 1960, C. Tracy Barnes, the A/DDP/A wrote a memorandum to Mr. Bissell complaining * Billy Campbell's relationship with Frank Egan indi- cated some degree of interservice rivalry, particularly at the time of the attempted Guatemalan revolt against President Ydigoras Fuentes in November 1960. 28/ (See Volume II of this history, Participation in the Conduct of Foreign Policy.)