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to the committee made it clear that he was in full agreement' with other members of the Joint Chiefs who favored the Trinidad plan over any of the alternatives--including Zapata-- that had been proposed ~ollowing the President's objections to Trinidad during the course of the 11 March 1961 meeting. The interrogation of Gen. Shoup developed in the following I manner: Que,stion: The JCS commenting on Trinidad said that it had a fair chance of success. Then I think that the record shows that they viewed the next alternatives and said that Zapata was the best of these three plans, but that they still . preferred Trindad. General Shoup: Yes, sir, any corporal would have said that••• Question: Did you have any misgivings labout the planned amphibious operation]? General Shoup: I very frankly made this statement, if this kind of an operation can be done with this kind of a force with this much training and knowledge about it, then we are wasting our time in our divisions, we ought to go on leave for three months out of four •. '109/ This response obviously rubbed Allen Dulles the wrong way for he sharply criticized General Shoup pointing out that representatives of the. Department of Defense rather than CIA personnel had been called on to render military judgments. General Shoup then noted that if he had known more about the operation, he. might have been more optimistic about its chances for success. He reported that he couldn't find out all that he would have liked to have known about the plan, but recognized 110/ that he wasn't supposed to know all such details. 115