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that CIA as the Agency responsible for the conduct of the Bay of Pigs operation had used "an improvised command and communication system that invited the trouble that promptly arose in exercising control." 4/ At no point during the course of the operation was the Agency or its representatives unable to exercise control over the Cubans who were in training or in combat; and this issue was not subject to serious discussion by the Taylor Committee. At another point in the newspaper article, Taylor said: In discussions after the fact with President Kennedy's principal advisers, I was struck by the fuzziness of their concept of what the Cuban expedition was supposed to accom- plish. All agreed that the initial purpose was to establish a beachhead in the Bay of Pigs, but then what? •• There was never a clear plan as to how to proceed. ~/ Taylor may have gotten this impression from Kennedy's advisers-- as distinct from the CIA principals--but if so this did not corne through lcud and clear in the course of the Taylor Committee investigation; nor did Taylor suggest any such fuzziness regarding the over-all objective of the Bay of Pigs operation in his book, Swords and Ploughshares. He was clear that the intent of the Bay of Pigs operation was the ouster of Fidel Castro and the installation of a provisional government--preferably one which was anti-communist and pro-US. Taylor's article then reiterated the points made in the conclusions to the Taylor Committee report: That Kennedy and some of his advisers understood: "The Brigade would exercise 226