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POP 19. The time spent in training is no measure of the quality of the training, of course, and there was undoubtedly a great waste of time. One of the Cubans trained for infiltration into Cube wrote that after he arrived in Panama in December 1960:"... during almost three weeks, the only thingh I did...was cleaning @ small dam and the shoting range. after that we just din't do anythingh, just sleep and ate, thats all.". When he arrived in Florida on 18 Jenuary: "There, the same history, sleep, eat,’ play card and watch teleyision. ‘The only training I receveid.during - that time was on secret writting, wich was very good but nothing else." The same agent pointed out serious deficiencies in his weapons training and his final briefing. 20. One of the instructors in Guatemala in the early months later claimed that only two instructors lmew their business; the others were chosen from the trainee cadre, who had only a back- ground of two months' training themselves. _He included -himself among the unqualified. , Training Omission 21. The remoteness of the training site caused additional difficulties. When brigade training started on 29 November there were only two compasses for. 405 troops, and these belonged to trainees. Compasses had first been requested on 2 October, but when they were not received the training in their use had to be omitted from the program.