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EOP Seat "lemon"; one of the most experienced employees in small boats spent most of his time from December to June trying to get it to run, and it never did participate in an infiltration or exfiltration operation. Also, about December a 75-foot yacht, the "Wasp", MD. It had a 17-knot speed and a 600-mile range and ran its first successful mission on 15 February. 9. About February the "Tejana" also became operational. This was a 110-foot yacht which became available through a Cuban contact of a case officer. The arrangements mde by the case officer with the Cuban owner were so vague that payment of bills incurred was a continuing ‘problem. However, the "Tejana", in four operations in March, infiltrated 19,000 pounds, as compared with 12,700 pounds which had been infil- trated from September up to February by all available boats. 10. The statistics compiled by WH/4 and by Miami Base on the small boat operations are somewhat confused and inconsistent. However, the general picture is clear. The small boat operations succeeded in getting about 76 people into Cuba clendestinely. Most of these were taken in during March. Up to the middle of February only ten had been successfully infiltrated by this means, the first being in mid-November. ll. In the matter of arms, ammunition and other supplies to the resistance, the boat operations were not an outstanding