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a? ORY ae ee ee oe @ 19. The time spent in training is no measure of the quality of the training, of course, and there was undoubtedly a great : waste of time. One of the Cubans trained for infiltration into \ Cuba wrote that after he arrived in Panama in December 1960:",.. during almost three weeks, the only thingh I did...was cleaning a small dam and the shoting range. after that we. just din't do anythingh, just sleep and ate, thats al1.". When he arrived in Florida on 18 January: "There, the ‘same history, sleep, eat y play card and watch teleyision. The only training I receveid. during > - that time was on secret writting, wich was very good but nothing else." The same agent pointed out serious deficiencies in his weapons training and his final briefing. a 20. One of. the instructors in Guatemala in the early months @ later claimed that only two instructors knew their business 3 the others were chosen from the trainee cadre, who had only a back- ground of two months' training themselves. _He included himself among the unqualified. Training Omission eal. The remoteness of the training site caused additional difficulties. When brigade training started on 29 November _ there were only two compasses for 405 troops, and these belonged to trainees. Compasses had first been requested on 2 October, but when they were not received the training in their use had to be omitted from the program.