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Se ee ee ed L. CLANDESTINE PARAMILITARY OPERATIONS -- TRAINING UNDERGROUND LEADERS 1. Early in the project a carefully selected group of Cubans was trained for infiltration into Cuba to organize resistance. The loose management, of the project is illus- trated by the confusion between the headquarters elements and the training elements over what these men were being trained for, and by the failure to have their missions, means of entry, and reception ready for them. 2. The trained Cubans put into Cuba were too few and too late to do very mich, and the strike planners ignored them. The cost of training and holding these men probably ran well over a million dollars, yet most.of them were never used for what they were trained to do, and some were not used at all. : 3. This particular endeavor began in December 1959 when the WH Division made a decision to pick a small group of Cubans and train them to train other Cubans for infiltration into Cuba in small paramilitary teams to organize resistance forces. Possible training sites in Panama were surveyed at this time, but no further action was taken. The basic policy paper approved by the President in March 1960 included the above proposal. - 125 -