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strike, Robert Kennedy, in an interview session with U.S. News and WorLd Report (28 January 1963) added some new fillips to further confuse the story. Kennedy charged (correctly) .that U. S. News and World Report had claimed on various occasions that President Kennedy had "withdrawn US air cover" and that as a result of that withdrawal the invasion had failed. The Attorney General stated that no US air cover had actually been promised -- and had he stopped with this comment there would have been no problem. In a question and answer session with the reporters, however, he went on to deny that any consideration had ever been given to the possibility of providing us air cover -- but as pointed out earlier in this volume, this subject had been extensively debated throughout the course of Project JMATE. More controversial and inaccurate was Kennedy's subsequent version of the "truth" concerning the planned air strikes. Robert Kennedy also said that the President under- stood that, after the D-2 air raid, there was to be \ another attack on Castro's airfields on the morning of D-Day.* The excitement at the UN, however, caused * The plan called for both reattack and the addition of military and communication targets. See pp. 233-234. - 296 -