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the whole thing the first day of recruit- ing because the Agency had failed to pay the rent on the motel. The landlady came over to the motel -- it wasn't a motel as such, it was little houses in a cluster -- and she caught us recruit- ing some of the initial Cuban pilots. We had to make sure that she was paid so that we could continue our job .•• The first operation was to train six B-26 crews, and either two or four C-46 crews, and two C-54 crews ..• and I think our target date on that was October 1 [1960] or somewhere in that area. We met our first target date. Then we were given a new target date in November to train more crews. 13/ Eduardo Ferrer, one of the Cubans who was re- cruited to be a transport pilot, and the individual who had flown a Cubana airliner out at gunpoint, was one of those whom Billy Campbell interviewed. In telling his story, Ferrer emphasized that Campbell's questions were straightforward and were concerned with Ferrer's qualifications as" a pilot. From Campbell, Ferrer and the other Cubans were then passed on for the security, medical, psychological, and psychiatric interviews. Except for the initial interrogation concerning their qualifications as fliers, the Cubans took an extremely dim view of the five days of the interrogation to which they were subjected. In re- porting on his LCFLUTTER examination, Ferrer found - 105 -