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down there was a kind of a segregation ... of Americans and Cubans and everyone else. I just set up a little beer bar, and when the flying was done, everyone came in and talked together. There was a lot of comment, and some of these more outspoken Cubans said ••• "if we are successful and we land ... we are all going to be fighting again, just to see who has got control." They'd tell these stories on themselves, so there were plenty of political factions, but I'm not up to date on what they were. 53/ In addition to the problems of interpersonal communications, communications between the field and Headquarters or between the field bases at MADD and TRAV also caused headaches. Shortly after the Cuban personnel at MADD began to fly operational missions, propaganda drops, and supply drops in December 1960, MADD sent a detailed cable to Headquarters complaining bitterly about two aspects of the communications problem. One complaint concerned the use in opera- tional messages from Headquarters of mission names which were completely ~ ~nd unidentifiable to the field, and as MADD said: These names are entirely foreign to our operations section. Our only means of identifying any mission is by the as- signed mission number. We would be aided immensely, if at the time a mission number was assigned an operation, your messages would also identify any previous reference that had been made to the operation by name only. 54/