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IQP ~ECR~T Part III Changing Concepts It has already been pointed out that the initial planning for paramilitary operations against Castro was to be based on extremely small units_ Tw~ or three man units, including a communicator, would be trained and infiltrated (or dropped) i~ta Cuba to work with a dissident group. One trainer wculc be the adviser for the types of guerrilla war=are activities which the anti-Castro dissidents might undertake safely and reasonably securely. There had been some signs of dissatisfaction with this particula= ~~e of program prior to the summer of 1960. By the late summer of 1960 and through the fall there was to be a complete and radical shift in the concept of the par~litary operations in which the forces back~d ~y CIA should engage. In late August-September, the~e Nere some clues that changes in the nature of operations were being contemplated. During the last week of August and in the initial week of September 1960, Savilion Chapman claimed that he and a Col. EV~~s, Acting Chief, PMG/DDP, were "briefed by WH/4 ?l2.:-.:...Tlers on the - 143 - TOP 3ECR:E.:::r