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inspection in early September 1960, the Agency deter- mined that a 1,500 acre segment in the north part of the field would be ideal for JMATE requirements -- length of runway, hangers, magazines, warehouses, railroad siding, and relative isolation provided the facilities and security necessary to the planned anti-Castro operations. Because the General Services Administration had started disposal action a year and a half prior to the time of its investigation, the Director of Logistics worked quickly and got the GSA Public Buildings Service Commissioner to agree to withhold disposal action on the north portion of the field and some magazines near the particular airstrip in which the Agency was interested. Working through channels, representatives of the Office of Logistics -- Col. Thomas A. McCrary, Acting Director of Logistics, andl --:O--~-:----- Chief, Real Estate and Construction Division -- con- tacted Rear Admiral H. A. Renken, Director, Shore Station Construction and Maintenance Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. Renken indicated that Navy would interpose no objection to Agency use of the field, and offered whatever assistance was - 61 -