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Robert A. Lovett, former Secretary of Defense, was the sole witness at the fourteenth meeting of the CSG on 11 May 1961. Mr. Lovett's testimony ~as broad ranging on the issues of organizing US efforts to effectively fight the Cold War, and he was particularly concerned about the impact which CIA's covert action ope.rations in overseas areas were having on internal politics of foreign nations, Additionally, he questioned the authority of CIA to support an invasion effort "on a hostile shore." Mr. Lovett stressed that in terms of manpower and money, the Department of State could not compete with CIA activities in fore.ign areas, and he noted the various recommendations which the 5412 Group and the President's Board of Consultants had recommended to control the situation. In this context Mr. Lovett specified with reference to the Bay of Pigs operation that there was an obvious failure on the part of the US Government, not CIA, to "make up its mind what in the hell it wanted to do." Mr. Lovett also expressed concern about the security problem with reference to the Cuban operation because of the generally wide knowledge of the operation which he had found 128