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during a visit to Miami prior to the invasion. He also doubted US capability to run covert operations because we were an "openmouthed society." When Mr. Lovett made a strong pitch for the separation of paramilitary operations from intelligence collection and production, he apparently was challenged by Allen Dulles who noted that the estimates on the possibilities of support from dissident elements in Cuba and of the strength of the Castro forces had been quite accurate and had been prepared by the operations, not the intelligence, component of the Agency. Again Dulles was in error. The estimates by the operations people of potential support by anti-Castro elements were highly optimistic--as were their estimates of the numbers actually involved in guerrilla operations. Far more realistic estimates appeared in the NIEs which were basically produced by intelligence, not operations, officers. As was the case with General Smith, Mr. Lovett was especially concerned about the US will to meet the Communist challenge in the Cold War. Among other things he pointed out that the US needed to stop worrying about whether the world loved us and recognize that the Soviets were really an enemy to be beaten by any methods necessary. 129