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On the basis of this charter, and despite its emphasis on the structure for dealing with potential paramilitary opera- tions during the Cold War, the Committee appointed by President Kennedy in April 1961 and headed by General Maxwell Taylo~ focused principally on the failure of the anti-Castro operation at the Bay of Pigs. Of the more than two dozen distinct issues which were introduced to, or by, the Cuban Study Group (CSG), as it came to be known, all were related directly to the question of the collapse of the anti-Castro brigade in the Bahia de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) area of Cuba between 17-19 April 1961. A$ General Taylor has written, he received a call from President Kennedy on 21 April 1961--two days following the collapse of the Cuban brigade's invasion--requesting that he come to Washington to discuss the Cuban situation. In that meeting on 22 April 1961, President Kennedy asked Taylor to head an investigative group to find out what went wrong at the Bay of Pigs; and despite apparently serious reservations concerning his own future as the recently appointed president of Lincoln Center in New York City, Taylor agreed to undertake the 2/ task.• For all practical purposes the Taylor Committee investiga- tion was completed by 11 May 1961--four days earlier than the 15 May date that President Kennedy had indicated as desirable