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DOP 8-8 worked extremely long hours for months on end without complaint and otherwise manifested high motivation, together with great perseverance and ingenuity in solving the manifold problems that the project constantly raised. It should be stated that in general the support people sent to the project by the support component were of excellent quality and effective performance. 13. Unfortunately, however, while many persons performed prodigies of effort, these were often directed towards over- coming obstacles which better organization and management would have eliminated. Such efforts were especially necessary (a) in support, of the chimera of "non-attributability" of the operation; (bd) in negotiating with the Armed Services for equipment, train- ing personnel, etc., which the Agency should have been able to request as of right; and (c) in providing the support for an overt military enterprise that was too large for the Agency's capabilities. - 45 -