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the President told him that he looked forward to his return. Napoli, in the hope of maintaining the close and supportive relationship with the Nicaraguan Presi- dent, expressed the desire to be able -- in the future -- to pass on full and complete details of planned ac- tivities that might relate to Nicaragua. 71/ The other postscript concerns the apparent reluc- tance of newly appointed Ambassador Brown to step on the Agency's toes. In June 1961, the Agency had ap- parently evolved a plan for using some of the Cuban pilots who had been trained during Project JMATE as instructors for the Nicaraguan Air Force. Ambassador Brown in objecting to this, requested that the follow- ing message be sent CIA: Now that Cuban invasion is over and we are closing out the NIC operation, it seems to me that we should not open up the pos- sibility of. raising future problems or bad local press by bringing back Cuban exiles as instructors. It seems we could avoid all chance of adverse local reaction by the use of already existing mechanisms such as Col. Hardee and his unit which capable of doing good job. I would not like to hamper progress of negotiations, but I would like to express the opinion, based on my present knowledge of the situation, that I would prefer no Cubans be used as instructors. 72/ - 145 -