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rather sharply about the failure ofDPD to coordinate messages concerning JMATE activity with the proper senior officials in WH/4. In one instance cited by Barnes, an expenditure had been improperly authorized; and in another a commendation for the commanders of both JMTRAV and JMADD had been included in a message originating with DPD.* Barnes objected that DPD had no authority over JMTRAV, and he recommended that DPD activities related to JMATE be fully and clearly p~t under the jurisdiction of Jake Esterline, Chief, WH/4 -- however, this was not the way Mr. Bissell chose to regard the matter. 30/** Although the differences between DPD and WH/4 were to continue in some degree through the course of the project, the records reflecting the disenchant- ment of one component with the other dropped off sig- \ nificantly after the decision rendered by Mr. Bissell * JMTRAV was the crypt for the infantry training base in Guatemala, and JMADD was the air training base. ** What might have been an attempted end run by WH/4 to get a similar memo to Biss'ell asking for the trans- fer of DPD to NH/4, apparently died aborning on 20 Sep 60 when Rudy Gomez, Acting Chief, Western Hemisphere Division failed to sign a memo addressed to the DDP. 31/ - 27 - ~T