Esterling person
also: Esterling, Jake Esterling
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“As a matter of fact, secret warriors recount that the final weeks before the election, Nixon encouraged a slowdown in the expectation that he would be taken over. Then, having lost, the vice president egged Ike to accelerate the project. Ta…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 49:48
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who had participated in World War II amphibious landings and had been a guerrilla commander against the Japanese in the Philippines. In Korea, he had led a battalion during the conflict there. Esterling could navigate the system and ask for…
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During the Guatemalan operation. But enlisting Rip. As a contract officer. Didn't require King's approval. Esterling thought highly of Robertson. And didn't mind bringing him back. Anticipating the need to embark. The exile force. As well a…
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That's double what it was originally budgeted for. Esterling discounted profiteering. The construction had been a fine job completed during the worst season and the airstrip became active in time to receive the first armed shipment. It woul…
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Among the Filipinos were Jose Valerano, who had begun his CIA contract work with who? Yes, Ed Lansdale. Esterling calls being knocked off his original timetable in August or September for not having this whole crew ready.…
▶ 49:28
Richard Bissell spoke to Esterling and Jack Hawkins, arguing several times that if the project relied so much on a landing force, this needed to be much larger. Colonel Hawkins agreed. I would talk to Esterling and Hawkins, and I don't thin…
▶ 49:58
Quote, I remember the feeling that I was well ahead of King, perhaps certainly Jake, in the belief that we had to place nearly exclusive reliance on the initial phase of whatever force was possible to land, unquote. Esterling also worried a…
▶ 10:19
between hunt and droller. An 11-year agency veteran, Reynolds had served in Mexico, Argentina, spoke fluent Spanish, and headed the Cuba branch of the D.O. Western Hemisphere when Castro had taken power. He knew Esterling from his OSS days.…
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a nexus that united many people on this project. Among the first people selected for the WH4 task force, Reynolds had another headache besides the Hunt-Droller conflict, a second-in-command who outranked him. But Bob had been Esterling's or…
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many of the Cubans. Hunt cut off others' access to him. All this did not add up to a happy camping group. Esterling favored Droller, whom he considered much more reliable than Hunt, but Droller was his own worst enemy. Critics of the Cuban …
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For air operations, Miami functioned only as a letterbox, recording resistance requests, passing them to Esterling, then informing the Cuban resistance of the response. In fact, staff sections in Miami had their own channels to headquarters…
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When Beerly's people acted on Cuban matters, they would be considered part of WH4, the headquarters. Then they gave them a new name because we needed another operational name. They became JM GLOW. This simply gave the air staffers extra hat…
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As a matter of fact, secret warriors recount that the final weeks before the election, Nixon encouraged a slowdown in the expectation that he would be taken over. Then, having lost, the vice president egged Ike to accelerate the project. Ta…