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PR weather. On the seven occasions cargo was dropped, it was either totally or in large part recovered by the Castro forces. Three times cargo was dropped blind, three times in the wrong place, and once on the drop zone when the reception committee was not there. 9. In all, about 151,000 pounds of arms, ammmition and equipment were transported by air. Not mare than 69,000 pounds of this was actually dropped; the rest was returned to base. Of this 69,000 pounds, at least 46,000 pounds were captured by Castro forces, who recovered all or a large part of ten drops, compared with our agents, who recovered three. In other words, out of 75 tons which were air-lifted, paramilitary agents actually got about twelve (about enough to arm 300 men » figuring 7,500 pounds to a hundred-man pack). 10. Except for the one team, there were no clandestine personnel drops made or even attempted during the entire project. Lack of Procedure ll. The agents on the ground did not have a standard procedure for air reception (most of them had not been trained). The locations of drop zones were variously and insufficiently described by coordinates, sketches, or azimuths. In two opera- tions the requesting agents did not even have maps of their areas. In one of these WH/4 headquarters, DPD and Miami Base euch arrived at a different set of coordinates from the reference points given. - lol -