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was kept in the dark about the actual plans and so on the very afternoon of the attack [15 April 61], in a verbal dual with Raul Roa at an emergency meet- ing of the United Nations Political [and Security] Committee, he accepted as truth the misinformation he received from Wash- ington. 78/ Charles Murphy who wrote one of the few articles that was favorable to the Agency in terms of the Bay of Pigs operation, stated that after Stevenson's em- barrassment of 15 April: From this hapless moment on, Steven- son's role becomes unclear. There was a subsequent published report that he" had intervened to block the second strike. Stevenson has flatly denied, and con- tinues to deny, that he even knew about the second strike, let alone that he demanded it be called off. 79/ A notorious ex-CIA employee who also has written about this episode noted: It was later alleged that Stevenson had been kept in the dark about invasion preparations. In self defense, Barnes was to produce a record of his briefing of Ambassador Stevenson well prior to invasion date. The Barnes-Stevenson memorandum was furnished Lyman Kirkpatrick, CIA'S Inspector General at the time. 80/* * The ex-employee was E. Howard Hunt.