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Dulles remarked that the happenings to which Bissell referred were probably to an increase in acts of sabotage the underground had been asked to initiate (~nd some of which had already taken,place) immediately preceeding the invasion. The Attorney General, however, could not quite accept this at face value and asked why, if an immediate uprising had not been anticipated, arms for 30,000 men had been acquired: "The figure of 30,000 indicates to me that someone was planning on a massive uprising someplace~ on getting people to use these weapons. Would that be a fair comment, Admiral [Burke]?" Admiral Burke, however, supported Dulles. He noted that the CIA plan had called for a stock of weapons sufficient to arm 5,000 men, but the Secretary of Defense was the one who has insisted that the number of weapons be pushed to the 30,000 figure. When the DCI was asked for his opinion regarding the attitude of the JCS on the Zapata plan, he proceeded to straddle the issue. He first indicated that it was his opinion that the Joint Chiefs--as had been emphasized by the JCS witnesses--clearly preferred the Trinidad plan, but were willing to support the Zapata plan. Dulles then added a ~illip to his statement "and suggested that some of the military personnel working on the project thought that Zapata was in some respects better than Trinidad. Admiral Burke's pointed