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;;POP 3ECRFF effort went into overcoming the idea that CIA financed radio programs should become a forum for. the varying views of rival exile splinter factions." Phillips was principally in Washington ... [but] there were ·frequent trips to Miami and New York, and Phillips himself coordinated CIA covert broadcasting with "Henry Loomis, Director of USIA's Voice of America. 21 All indications are that Phillips had an excellent staff which was highly motivated and certainly extremely busy during the course of the Bay of Pigs Operation.* The key point in Dave Phillips's propaganda opera- tion was to be the 50,000 watt radio transmitter located on the larger of.the two Swan Islands -- this so called "larger n island being roughly 1 3/4 miles long by 1 1/4 miles wide. US possessions, the Swan Islands are located roughly 100 miles NEof Honduras in the Caribbean Sea. Already located on the island was a Federal Aviatipn radio beacon, and a Department ~f Commerce weather station. In April1960,'the cover story_which was devised for the * Among those who worked in Phillips's Political and Psychological Section in WH/4, were William Kent, John Isaminger, Phillip A. Toomey, Earnest I. Harrison, Paul Oberst, and Michael J. Maney. 10/ Illustrative of the desire to placate the various exile factions was the proposal by the Forward Operations Base to give the spokesmen of the factions air time on WRUL on a rotating basis to present the position of the particular group. FOB was to assume responsibility for WRUL programming on 1 December 1960, and was of the opinion that such programming would "have desired effect on creating semblance [of] united anti Castro opposition." lOaf - 212 - :rep ~!:.CRI:. t