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ee eee charted five different lists of proposed assignments for any future provisional government of Cuba and are compiling biographic data on those Cubans who might be utilized by us in forming a future Cuban government." , 4O. The crowning incident which publicly demonstrated the insignificant role of the Cuban leaders and the contempt in ‘which they were held occurred at the time of the invasion. Isolated in a Miami safe house, "voluntarily" but under ‘strong ‘persuasion, the Revolutionary Council members awaited the outcome ‘of a military operation which they had not planned end.knew little about while Agency-written bulletins were issued to the world in their name. 41. They. had not been puppets in the early days of the project. Some of the Cubans had drawn up detailed operational plans for resistance in areas of Cuba that. they knew intimately; others provided coyer ‘and support. .One wealthy exile :eyen vol- untarily went through the assessment routine at Useppa Island along with the young trainees. They had reason to feel that the project was in the nature of a joint venture, at least. The Military Emphasis 42. But when the project began to shift from a clandestine operation to a military operation, Cuban advice and participa- tion no longer seemed necessary. Cubans who up to about November 1960 had been close to some of the plans and opera- tions were cut out. To the military officers on loan to the - 9h -