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moved either into restricted areas or out of sight of the newsmen -- the Cuban air trainees being orbited over the ocean in a C-54. Guatemalan soldiers were moved into the areas to pass as the ones who were being trained by the few Americans posing as mercenaries hired by the GOG to provide the training. Ydigoras believed that the guided tour procedure" was the best defense against both the heavy internal political pressures as well as the inquiries from out- side news sources for information on the activities which were being observed at the Retalhuleu airstrip. Through the device of admitting to a certain amount of US technical help in the form of "mercenaries" he hoped to blunt the charges that he was preparing and supporting the Cubans who planned to overthrow Castro. 75/* US newspapers and periodicals began to show so much interest in possible CIA involvement in Guatemala * Robert Zunzer, presently Executive Officer to the Deputy Director for Administration, clearly recalls having to take to the woods in order to get out of the path of the media investigators who were brought into Guat~mala at this time. He said it provided one or two of the few days of leisure that he experienced during the course of his participation in the JMATE activity.