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POPPE CEE 50215 @ 5. In November and December there were six other successful small boat operations conducted with boats owned by various Cubans. a The arrangements were made by individual case officers at Miant (there being no maritime section) and mainly in response to requests by the owners. No memoranda of understanding were nade end the agreements as to supporting, equipping, and funding these Cuban boats were exceedingly loose, thus causing many problems later. ; : : 6. A Cuban would say, "Give me a tank of gas and a machine gun, and you can use our doat and we will help run it." After the operation he was likely to come back and say that the boat C needed all sorts of equipment which had been damaged by the vo. operation, and many claims vere built up in this way. T- Although more than twenty of these boats were offered . to case officers, mast of them were too small and too limited in range to be of much use. Furthermore, the bad weather which lasted from December into March made small boat operations © impossible at a time when they were badly needed. In January 1961 there was not a single successful operation. Boats . 8. By December the need for some QQSNB boats was becoming obvious. The "Sea Gull" (see below) was picked up by Headquarters about this time. It turned qut to be e complete