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I thank the gentleman for that and I think. also. it needs to be pointed out that it was that lack of communication which I think failed to ferret out some of the problems we had at these camps. The administration time and time again assured us that we had no real problems with most of the refugees. that their initial intelligence reports and the initial work they had done were such that they did not believe the people we were dealing with were any problems. Now we find out that as most of the refugees who have families in this country have been moved out of the camps and the people left in the camps are really very much of a problem element. I think that the lack of Spanishspeaking personnel at the camps made it impossible to determine that until later. It also contributed to the fact that we failed to recognize there were professional terrorists within these camps.