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Tor SECRET commitment by me, or by anyone in my admin- istration," and he doubts that Kennedy felt '·he was frozen to any position by me." 44/ Gordon Gray, President Eisenhower's National Security Advise~also supported his former boss when quer{ed about the Eisenhower role in the Bay of Pigs activity, stressing that the emphasis during Eisen- hower's administration was on training the Cuban ex- iles and providing them with equipment. Like the former President, Gray, too, said that there was Uno military plan". The definition of. a military plan, however, seems to have focused on an actual site for the land- ing; and in this sense, Gray certainly was telling the truth because no such choice had been made at the time that Eisenhower left office. In his own words, Gray stated: There wasn't any military plan formu- lated by the time the Eisenhower admini- stration went out. Of course, the Presi- dent was fully aware of and conversant with the decision to train and arm indi- viduals. And the concept was one that was sort of chqnging in the Eisenhower Administration. First we were thinking in terms of the old infiltration of small groups. Then they were thinking of the possibility of landing of people, unit sized groups. And no decisions had been reached at that time. It was only that - 201 - DdP SECREt ,