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PoP 5 aT Freedom Fund Campaign 49. There were also financial problems on a smaller scale. To publicize Radio Swan, and perhaps to enhance its cover, the Cuban Freedom Fund Campaign was organized in November to solicit donations through newspaper advertisements. The radio station, which was budgeted at $900,000 for Fiscal Year 1961, received $330 in gifts during the next few weeks. . va 50. Bohemia Libre, a handsome weekly magazine » budgeted at $300 , 000 but actually costing. about $35,000 an issue, had bad luck from the start in seeking advertising and once missed ° an issue on that account. Additional funds had to be sought for it several times. Yet it developed an audited circulation of 126,000, said to be second only to the Reader's Digest in the Spanish-language field. D1. While the project moved forward, acquiring boats, © planes and bases, training men, negotiating with foreign govern- ments, seeking policy clarification, training an FRD security service, publishing magazines and newspapers, putting out radio broadcasts, and attempting to move arms, men and propaganda into Cuba by sea or air, the FRD, in whose name most of this activity was being carried on, was making little progress toward unity. 52. Members would resign in a huff and have to be wheedled back. Each faction wanted supplies to be sent only to its own