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particularly after the plan shifted from Trinidad to Zapata. Col. Hawkins went through the drill beginning with the 1 __ exercise when all recruits were to be trained for small team guerrilla type operations and ending with the training for conventional infantry type tactics necessitated by changing conditions inside Cuba. Hawkins also pointed out that re- cruiting had slowed down seriously in mid-November of 1960 as a result of the political games which the FRO leaders were playing. He noted that each one of the leaders of the FRO was trying to insure that his own particular supporters would be the ones recruited and sent into the training camps. Another factor militating against guerrilla training for all of the recruits was related to the long drawn out negotiations with the Department of Defense over the acquisition of 38 Special Forces trainers who would be responsible tor teaching infantry tactics to the enlarged brigade. These trainers did not arrive on the scene until January 19.61, and they had to devote their full time and effort to teaching basic infantry tactics and the use and - employment of the weapons which now were to be used by the brigade. 171