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Shoddy Training And Strange Morale Fixes
- Training quality varied wildly: pilots injured in accidents and instructors misidentifying Cuban geography like Trinidad's size.
- Guatemalan brothels were even organized to reduce AWOL rates, highlighting low discipline and improvisation.
Secrecy Became A Strategic Liability
- Richard Bissell's obsession with secrecy created operational silos that hindered coordination and increased vulnerability to leaks.
- Secrecy worked for tech projects like the U-2 but faltered in complex regime-change efforts with many moving parts.
Leaked Photos and Press Exposures
- Howard Hunt published training photos that then appeared in newspapers, betraying operational secrecy and alarming colleagues.
- A Guatemalan paper later exposed CIA-built bases, making the operation harder to hide internationally.