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effects. Attached to the handwritten memorandum was a cover comment which read: These notes very valuable, because they were made when memory was fresh. C.P.C. On the foolscap itself, at the top of the first page, appears the comment: Written soon after my appearance. , The first sentence of the notes then explains: That these notes are further to the statement submitted by me and Mr. Richard Bissell to the Taylor-Kennedy-Dulles-Burke Board on [9 May 1961]. As it adds to what has already been discussed , about Cabell's reaction to the news that the second strike was to be cancelled -- and because he is accused of serious shortcomings on the cancellation of the D-Day air strike it is believed worth repeating the verbatim text of that note: When Mr. McGeorge Bundy, Assistant to the President, called me at Project Head- quarters the night of [16] April [1961], he made it quite clear to me that the decision had already been made by the President cancelling the air strike on Cuban airfields planned for the morning of [17 April 1961]. (This decision was made without consulting in advance with me as Acting D.C.I. or anyone else in CIA.) - 239 -