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the invasion, probably had the best track record in support 'of this position of any of those in either the Eisenbower Administra- tion or the Kennedy Administration who were involved in the planning or the Bay of Pigs Operation. Mr. Mann had consistently advocated that if the United States was going to support a major anti-Castro activity, it should be done overtly, and probably with American Forces. Strangely enough, Mr. Mann was not called as a witness--that he would have to be called back from his recently assumed post as Ambassador to Mexico being the rationalization for not requesting his testimony. The JQeeting on 6 May 1961, was a "conversation" between General Taylor and Garfield Teegen (pseudonym), Chief of Air Operations for the anti-Castro project. As usual, Colonel Tarwater was present to keep the record of the meeting; and the introduct~on of the Memorandum for Record of this session stated this, was not a verbatim transcript. Aside from the first CSG meeting, however, this may be the only other session where what was reported was verbatim.* Because it is relatively short, and because Mr. Teegen was obviously the most knowledgeable individual about the air operations this conversation is repeated in full as follows: * The writer says this advisedly, but it is based on a lengthy interview with Mr. Teegen and several subsequent conversations with him, including a discussion following Teegen's review of the first volume of this history (Air Operations). The author's impression is that Mr. Teegen probably was just as terse with General Taylor as indicated. 109