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~p SECRE"I initial meeting Garcia claimed 'that he had large stores of military equipment in Spain, that he had additional promises of assistance from General Franco, and that he had contacts in the White House who had given ~im the "go ahead" for an invasion of Cuba! Word of Garcia apparently got to the FBI, to General Cabell, and apparently to the Office of Vice President Nixon. In any event, on 9 July 1960 Jake Esterline met with Mr. Marshall Diggs, a Washington lawyer and Garcia's sponsor, where he was told of Garcia's grandiose plans to overthrow Castro. In a follow-up meeting in Diggs's office on 11 July, Mr. Phillip Toomey, WH/4/Prop met with Garcia, Cameron Pulley, and two reputed underwater demolitions ex- perts. Garcia went into his act about pow his force could overthrow the Castro Government, assuming that he could get some financial assistance for training and equipping the troops. Mr. Pulley proceeded to tell Mr. Toomey that Garcia's project was part of a (-} program that was being promoted by former Senator Owen Brewster for the entire Caribbean area -- appar- ently a program designed to eliminate all the bad guys. Following another meeting on 13 July and after - 266 - ,