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there was some confusion as to the time the Navy CAP was to be provided, Teegen's terse answer was: "There was no confusion of the time. I received a message that Navy air CAP would be provided. II S/ Teegen'~ Mission Summary Report of 26 April 1961 for the TaYlor Committee noted that either four or five B-26s were launched from Puerto Cabezas between Q845Z and 0900Z~ Estimating the minimum time of arrival over the target for these aircraft to be two-and-one-half hours, one of the planes could have been over the target area as early as 0430R, two at 06lSR, and two at 0630R. The first arrival clearly was outside of the time ass~9ned for the USN CAP. The other four would have been well within the time COSSOR) that Admiral Clark testified his CAP was "over the beach area." The two B-26s which were lost on 19 April were within the specified period (0630-0730R) for CAP protection. The question of the number of aircraft focuses on the ap- proximate time o~ departure for Joe Shannon. In the r1ission Summary for the Taylor Committee prepared in 1961, Shannon's launch time was shown as l030Z; but when Teegen reviewed Albert Person's publication, The Bay of Pigs, Shannon's launch ~as given as 0900Z. Based on the messages that Puerto Cabezas sent to Headquarters on 19 April reporting the shoot down of Riley Shamburger and Wade Gray by a T-33, Shannon must have launched