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that the interrogator appeared to be interested in improving or acquiring a vocabulary of Spanish idioms. Stating that he had no homosexual proclivities, Ferrer used the word maricon, which the interrogator immediately picked up, repeating it several times, as Ferrer said, Ifcon un horrible acento. If "14/ The group of Cuban pilots found the questions not only repititious, but also farcical. One of the pilot group, in fact, claimed that he had answered most of the written questions with obso&dties, rather than telling the truth suggesting that these were no basis on which to judge qualifications of the indiv~ concerned.* * Fausto Gomez, the pilot in question, reportedly said: Si yo voy a los cammamentos depen- diendo de estas pruebas, todo esto es una farsa, porque cuando me canse de escribir conteste las preguntas con buZZ shit" ••• go to heZZ ••• fuck you .•• yas! ••• (If my going to camp depends on these proofs, it's all a farce because when I was tired of writing I answered the ques- tions with Ifbullshit ••. go to hell fuck you.") 15/ According to Gar Thorsrud, Gomez's responses and attitude put him at the bottom of the list of candidates for flight training. Thorsrud, however, told th~ author that Gomez, a former smuggler in the Cuban and Caribbean area, proved to be a competent and loyal pilot. At one point, according to Thorsrud, Gomez's intimate knowledge of the coastal areas paid off in one of the few success- ful air drops to anti-Castro dissidents in Cuba. lSa/ - 106 -