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plans and operations personnel of JMATE were on sure ground was in the number of potential combat aircraft available to FAR from 11-19 April 1961.* Col. Gaines was quite correct in his assessment of what might happen if the enemy were given breathing space between initial air attacks and D-Day -- from , Castro to common laborers the D-2 air strike got the Cubans together. The high point, of course, was Castro's oration at the funeral of the eight who died in the attack. The speech was given on 16 April and was attended by thousands of Cubans. Castro, as usual, portrayed the evils of the Agenc~ and US imperi- alists; and, predictably, ordered all military units on the alert, ready for action. 72/ In his television address of 23 April 1961, sub- sequent to the collapse of the invasion, Castro himself * Mr. Rusk has continued to pop up with interesting statements related to the Bay of Pigs, apparently claiming that Allen Dulles confided to him that he never had much faith in the Bay of Pigs operation and had reservations about the outcome. Leonard Mosley, a Dulles biographer, states that Rusk said of Dulles "that he [Dulles] never once mentioned those doubts during the cabinet meetings." One won- ders why this information was not surfaced long ago. 71c/ - 230 -