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Sane ee eo ae and equipment; he also had to find sites for a suitable air base, @ maritime base, and a prison and contract for these facilities to be built. He had three assistants: a commmications officer and two contract employees. 8. The initial group of paramilitary trainees was trans- ferred to the Guatemala Base from Panama after two months of training. By 23 August there were 78 paramilitary trainees ’ 34 communications trainees » and nine staff and contract employees. 9. “By. September the training camp had enough facilities and instructors to begin a four-week basic training course. The trainees were sorted into seven-men teams according to their area knowledge and their aptitudes. Sixty were selected to go into Cuba (either legally or illegally) and to contact resistance groups; 60 were selected for action teams to go in illegally and join the resistance groups that had been contacted by the first teams; the remainder of the trainees would be formed into a ‘small conventional strike force. The training base expected the teams to be ready to go in October and asked Head- quarters to provide the infiltration plans. 10. The trainers did not realize that Headquarters had changed the plan. Already in July the FRD, the exile political front, had been asked to provide 500 individuals for a para- military action cadre, and the training base was asked if it could accommodate this number. Obviously, it could not.