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BayOfPigsVolumeIVTheTaylorCommitteeInvestigationOfTheBayOfPigs

312 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Aug 7, 1984 · Broad topic: War & Geopolitics · Topic: Taylor Committee Investigation · 5 pages OCR'd
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the so-called 'guerrilla options,' i.e., a break-out to the nearby swamps and hills in guerrilla bands to join the anti- Castro dissidents believed to be in the region." 6/ As suggested earlier, at best this seems to have been wishful thinking on the part of Kennedy and his advisers. Certainly the hills in which the guerrillas were operating were anything but "nearby" Zapata. General Taylor appears to have exercised selective recall when he made the following statement about the role of the JCS: "The role of the JCS was that of advisers on the sidelines, offering comments from time to time on selected aspects of the operation but never formulating an integrated evaluation of the overall merit of the plan and its probability of success." 1/ As the Taylor Committee reported, there was no integrated evaluation of the operational plan prepared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff;" but it also was pointed out by the individual Chiefs of Staff during the course of their appearances as witnesses before the Taylor Committee that each of them believed that the planned operation was capable of achieving its objectives. What was completely overlooked was that the JCS's own anti-Castro plan supported CIA's and that DOD representatives who evaluated the zapata plan, found it feasible but less desirable than the Trinidad plan. 227
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