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Zapata. When challenged on the matter of JCS support for Zapata as opposed to Trinidad, the following exchange took place: Statement: The JCS commented that Zapata w~s the best of the three alternatives they had considered, but that they still favored the original Trinidad Plan. Secretary Rusk: They didn't put their views in writing and that didn't come through. There was a strong impression that they favored the [Zapata] plan. At one meeting the President went around the room and asked everyone pe.rsonally their opinion and I believe I was the only one that didn't approve • .21/* .. No one on the committee challenged Secretary Rusk's comment that the JCS failed to put their views in writing. It would have been useful to know whether any meeting in which Secretary Rusk had participated during the first part of April, prior to D-2, had discussed JCSM-166-6l where the JCS position in favor of Tr!nidad had been so clearly stated; and it would have been interesti~g to learn whether or not the Secretary of Defense had ever discussed this particular paper during a Cabinet session whe.re Secretary Rusk was present. In any event, Mr. Dulles undoubtedly received a copy of JCSM-166-6l (at least the JCS specified to Secretary of Defense that the DCI should * Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., who was at the meeting where Rusk claimed to have been the only one who indicated disapproval of the Zapata Plan, stated in his book, One Thousand Days (pp. 25l-252), that the only dissident was Senator Fullbright. 97