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during the Taylor Committee meetings. continued operations by the Brigade B-26s throughout Cuban air space, including operations off of the Zapata airstrip. might well have stimulated internal dissidence and permitted the establishment as planned of a provisional, anti-Castro. government. In his book Taylor was putting the cart before the horse. Taylor also discussed the reaction to the report which he forwarded to President Kennedy on 13 June 1961. He wrote: After discussing our recommendations with his senior advisers. the President eventually approved all except the one relating to the establishment of the Strategic Resources Group. Dean Rusk was less than enthusiastic about an interdepartmental committee reporting to the President with a potentially important role in foreign affairs which might impinge on the traditional responsibilities of the Department of State. As a result, the concept of the SRG was progressively modified in discussion and finally in January [1962] took the form of the Special Group Counterinsurgency.•• The after-action critique which we had urged took place in the President's sitting room in the White House with an attendance which included the President, Secretary of State Rusk, Secretary of Defense McNamara. the Joint Chiefs of Staff, McGeorge Bundy, Senior CIA officials, and the members of the Cuba Study Group. I made the presentation for the Group. outlining the entire Bay of Pigs operation as we had reconstructed it, the mistakes as we saw them, our conclusions and recommendations. Since up to that moment no one present, except the President, had had the entire operation laid out before him, the audience followed the presentation with intense interest. At the end, there was animated discussion but with no indication of resentment or ill feeling among the officials whose conduct was under review. When it was over and the visitors had filed out, the President turned to me with a wry grin and said, "Well, at least nobody got mad" ..• 224