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_ BOR 6 EE On ) $39,500 Repairs (eventually reduced from $65,000) 58,000 Communications gear, tools, arms, navigation aids 14,000 111,500 39. The "Sea Gull” was not ready to be used until the last week of March; at this time it was commandeered (along with the "Wasp") by a headquarters unit which was staging 4 deception operation in connection with the amphibious strike, over “the strong protests of Miami Base ’ which never got to use the boat on an infiltration operation. ~ ho. The lack of qualified personnel, the confusion of responsibility, the lack of planning, and the skyrocketing costs in the maritime activity led to a high-level request for the assignment of a qualified senior Naval officer to the project. When a captain reported, no one seemed to know what to do with him and, after he briefly visited Miami and Key West pases, he was assigned to the naval side of the strike planning at Headquarters. He is reported to have been not ‘entirely happy with his brief Agency tour. In any event he was another example of poor handling of people in this project, and he was not given a chance to solve the problems of maritime operations. kl. It ig apparent that the Agency had very little capability for maritime operations even of a clandestine nature. It lacked