◆ SpookStack

probable success of any purely'clandestine paramili- tary operations." Cabell then introduced a suggestion which would be heard right up to the time that the invasion fleet was being boarded -- that "volunteers" be acquired for the anti-Castro forces, such volunteers to be drawn from US Special Forces.* l8al As the presiding officer at the special National Security Council meeting, Vice President Nixon raised a number of questions with the Department of State ...~ representatives concerning support that the Organiza- • tion of American States would likely give to this country's anti-Castro efforts; and he also posed a series of questions concerning the economic pressures that the United States might put on Cuba. The ques- tions concerned sugar, oil, and tariffs.in particular; and the Vice President urged that "strong, positive , action (be taken] to avoid becoming labeled "Uncle Sucker." 191 , * No such volunteers were permitted in the case of the ground forces, but in the last two days of the Bay of Pigs Operation such volunteers were accepted for combat air operations. See Volume I of this History, Air Operations. - 262 - TOP gECRFT