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\ Why CIA should have misled State has never been clear. Possibly the Agency having worked out its deception plan, felt obliged to deceive even the rest of its own government; or possibly the CIA source, if in the Intelligence Branch, was himself "unwitting." 1'06/ If Schlesinger's sequence is correct in saying that on Saturday, 15 April 1961, following the air strike, that Harlan Cleveland contacted State's Bureau of "Interamerican Affairs" (actually the Bureau of American Republic Affairs) which, in turn, called the CIA and if these inquiries went to "the Intelligence Branch" (CIA's Directorate for Intel- ligence), it was an inexcusable screwup by State. ARA/State should have known enough to go to either Secretary Rusk or Adolf Berle in its own house or to the Western Hemisphere Division in CIA's Direc- torate for Plans for information'on the anti-Castro project. Rusk's confusion about the aircraft would seem to imply certain ineptitude on his part or on the part of his immediate staff rather than by the Agency. Moreover, considering the comments that had been made concerning Tracy Barnes's instructions in contrast to what Barnes apparently said, it would seem - 263 -