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Lynch, on the other hand, had a different opinion: We were never told that the President has said that no Americans will be involved in this. That was something that we never heard of until we got back to Washington••• I had no specific instructions to land on the beach and I had no specific in- structions not to land on the beach. I was given a job to do here. I told the people when they said that we would have to have this recon•.• if I have to land in there to determine it [the situation] I will do so. And they did not object. 150/ The twentieth meeting of the Taylor Committee, 25 May 1961, was confined to the testimony of Miro Cardona, head of the Cuban Revolutionary Council (CRC) which had been promoted by the Kennedy Administration to succeed the Frente Revolucionario Democratico (~RDl and give a broader base to the voice of the exiled Cubans. Miro Cardona went through the standard drill about all of the high level people that he had talked to in the Kennedy Administration and the assurances that had been made for the future of Cuba. He specified that prior to the invasion he had been promised 15-30,000 American troops by Adolf Berle. and I I Miro made the standard protest about how the Cuban leader-ship should have been in charge of the whole invasion effort and that if the US would supply the money, he could insure the ouster of 151/ Castro. The twenty-first meeting of the Cuban Study Group, 20 May 1961, had as its single witness Allen Dulles, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and a member of the Taylor Committee.. This is the last officially recorded ",:,..,... l:Jj .(1, . ,'P •