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enthusiastic to hear from Headquarters with reference to a Havana drop that: Again qualitative rather than. quantita- tive dispersion will be required, since leaflets are directed to a specific group now being suppressed by Castro. These missions carry small amounts, only be- cause of the importance of hitting the select groups. Headquarters feels that these small quantity runs are most im- portant to overall mission. 71/ In order to deliver to these select groups, the directions given to the Cuban aircrews sounded like directions being given to a city taxicab driver. For one drop it was stated that "Villaneuva University located on south side Fifth Avenue between 172nd and 176th Streets. Fish to be dropped after University drop on way out.* Fly down Fifth Avenue and COP be- tween Hotel National and US Embassy." 72/ Before mid-March, with the exception of the \ propaganda drops, which were considered 100% success- ful, DPD began to show increasing dissatisfaction * The fish sYmbol was one of the more widely used during the course of the anti-Castro movement. Samples of this, and other propaganda leaflets appear in Ap- pendix 2. In all there were 23 leaflet drops between 12 December 1960 and the collapse of the Bay of Pigs Operation. About 12 million leaflets were dropped in addition to assorted publications. 72a/ - 145 -