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TOP, SECRI:: I that this had never set very well with J. C. King. He was divested of the Guatemalan experience, and particularly when it turned out to be a success •.• PBSUCCESS was a success, through dumb luck more than anything else. J. C•••• couldn't take any of the bows for it. All right, that rankled, I am sure. Now this one comes along, and rather than ex- pand WH/4, or whatever the hell it was, and leave this JMATE Project within that Branch, and build up that Branch -- oh, no. Once again the same man, Dick Bissell -- now, however, DDP instead of SAPC -- becomes the case officer for the thing; and his assistant, Tracy Barnes, is all over him. One of J. C. King's few very good men, Jacob D. Esterline, is pulled aside and made Chief of the project ••• The old man had a great deal of amour propre, J. C. King did. He was very vain. He had all of the area expertise that one would like to see in a Division Chief, but he had been at it an awful long time. It was a very incestuous Division. In terms of the rotation, it was solely within WH. There were very few people in WH who had served outside of the Western Hemisphere, except in Washington. They were a tight-knit .little group, and here now, for the second time running, one of their big chances to shine -- there \ . was a lot of money and all that k1nd of stuff -- again had been taken away and it was •.• it was tough. 21 Where Drain implied that J. C. King was cut com- pletely out of WH/4 activities and operations, Mr. Bissell had indicated that the situation was somewhat different. In the course of an oral interview, the - 37 -