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-TOP )!SECRET other evidence of the need to have someone with Spanish language capability inunediateTy available at Radio Swan, were the following: A machine-run of Agency employees failed to surface "anyone with sufficient Spanish language to undertake an announcer's job; inability to exploit the fatal shooting of a Venezue- Ian child by a pro-Castro goon, could not be turned to US advantage; and by mid-November 1960 WH Division was requesting that a requirement be laid on to the Department of Defense for a serviceman with native fluency in Spanish who could be used as an announcer at Radio Swan.* * In the instance of the death of the Venezuelan child, the pro-Castro Cuban press was able to get the story out before it could be broadcast from Radio Swan. The pro-Castro press claimed that the death had been caused by a counter-revolutionary. (Sources for the foregoing discussion related to the lack of Spanish language capability are listed in reference 22/.) The lack of Spanish language capability was felt throughout the project, not only in the propaganda ef- fort. As late as January 1961, for example, the train- ing facility in the Canal Zone was pushing Headquarters for the services for a two week period of an Air Force sergeant who was fluent in Spanish. The training base wanted the sergeant to assist in briefing and debrief- ing an infiltration team. The request was denied, how- ever, because there was a greater need for the man's services as an instructor at the air training base in Guatemala. 22a/ In another instance, a request from COB Miami for promotion of a clerical from GS-4 to GS-S was based on the fact that "her services as a translator have been of the greatest importance to the Base since her arrival." 22b/ - 221 - -fOP SECRU-