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prior to~ 02' during Roa's presentation on Monday~ 10 April. I said this because at that time, after the aelays mentioned above, Roa was definitely expected to make his postponed attack on the floor of the UN on IOApril, and it was so scheduled. Obviously, I could have said nothing else in view of my other statements that no decision of any kind existed as to the invasion, and that nothing could be known prior to the Wednesday,12 April meeting called by the President. In fact, at the time the Stevenson message was not taken in the least seriously ••. It is alleged that I did not mention that an invasion was about to begin over the weekend, nor that I indicated that one was even imminent. As indicated above, I could not do either, since the only decision authority had not spoken. 82/* Barnes also noted that Stevenson was specifically. told about plans that included any aspect of US involve- ment in the JMATE anti-Castro operation. 83/ Stevenson's * The provenance of the document from which this quo- ta~ion is taken has not been determined. The author inherited a Xerox copy from miscellaneous files col- lected by David McLean, but was unable to locate the original or a carbon copy. Consequently, it is impos- sible to determine whether the emphasis shown in the quotation came from the Barnes's original copy or was added when McLean made his copy. Similarly, the author's copy reflects at least one grammatical change and two spelling corrections (from "eminent" to "imminent" and from "eminence" to. "imminence") which mayor may not be part of the original. At the time that Barnes wrote the referenced memorandum he was Chief, Domestic Operations Division, DDP; and Gordon Mason, to whom the memorandum was addressed was a Special Assistant to the DDP.