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But, of course, with him being a military man, you had to have complete cooperation, complete direction, or else you didn't have a good organizational arrangement. I would vehemently defend that there was not any compromise at any time. 'Bissell would have been aware of it. 16/ At another point, in commenting that Taylor was trying to suggest that the command relationship was the reason for the collapse of the invasion, Beerli said: In my opinion that wasn't the case at all because the tasks were clearly defined, discussed, and approved at the WH level and later approved at the Bissell level We knew what we had to do was pre- set. The missions were going to be flown .•• DPD's jobs were to see that they [Cubans] were adequately trained; to see that the equipment and everything was properly in good condition; and to be sure that we understood the plan as the Western Hemisphere wanted us to under- stand it., They made it out -- all that we did was to provide the technical expertise. If there were options, we presented the options to tnem; and they made the decision. At no time did we ever say "this is the way you've got to do it." 17/ , - In addition to his reflections on General Taylor, Col. Beerli was also quite conscious of criticisms which apparently were levele4 both during the course of the operation and subsequent to the collapse of the invasion by Col. Jack Hawkins, Chief, WH/4/PM who was - 17 -