Even as the Cbmmunists haggled for arms with the Prince, Hanoi was sending cadres from the old Khmer Viet Minh down the trail towards southern Cambodia. According to a well-placed defector,* the first such infiltra¬tors, few in number, arrived in the COSVN area in 1962. The trickle widened into a small but steady stream in 1965. If the defector's estimates are taken at face value, the total number of Cambodian regroupees to have arrived at COSVN by late 1967 was in the neighborhood of 3000. Other evidence suggests that the number of Khmer infiltrators was much lower