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Pee 17. An effective infiltration mechanism never was developed. Not one of the paramilitary teams was ever delivered by air. On 29 March the project was able to put four agents into Cuba through Guantanamo Base. It is not clear why this could not have been done earlier. No infiltration was ever tried by submarine. Morale Problems 18. On 10 March 1961 (16 months after.the original ‘decision to train resistance teams) the 90 men who had been trained for this were distributed as follows: 32 infiltrated, including 14 radio operators 5 at sea on a sabotage mission 6.in New Orleans as members of a raider team 28 in New Orleans still awaiting infiltration 19 detached to Miami for various impending operations. The morale of the remaining trainees was low and their anger high. This caused a great many problems in New Orleans. Some of these men had been held in five different camps over'a ten-month period. On 30 March, about three weeks before the invasion, the remainder of the group (about 20) were transferred to Miami and turned loose, being described as a collection of spoiled individuals distinguished by bad conduct. At least 30 of the agents who were recruited between May and September 1960 never got into Cuba at all; among the 30 were eight who came into the project in the original group in May 1960 and who were in training almost continuously from that time up to April 1961. ~ 131 -