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In reference to 6 April, Gray did not list the partici- pants; and he reported that Bissell outlined the defec- tion plans, with air strikes and diversionary landings. 5b/ In another reference to "results of meetings with the President on 4, 5, and 6 April," Gray stated that "Planned 'Defection' air strikes" had forced revisions in the CIA plan. 5c/* It is difficult in retrospect, to understand, how one of Bundy's position, could seriously believe that the mounting of a tactical air strike would not uN be used against the United States in the _ forum by Castro. Certainly there had be~n enough publicity on the training efforts in both Guatemala and Nicaragua- and on US support for the FRO's anti-Castro efforts to indicate that the White House Staff had not done its homework if, in fact, Bundy really believed the US would not be held culpable. Bundy's reference to the possibility of "a quiet landing" per the stric- ture of Secretary Rusk -- also seems to offer a placebo * '~uring the period 5-7 April 1961, Jack HaWkins,1 I I (WH/4/CI), Dick Drain (C/OPS/WH/4), and MrL---.--~ B~sseII, among others, appear to have been most closely involved in planning th-e -B-26 defection-deception op- eration. 5d/ - 182 -