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As an example of the loss between the verbatim transcript (76 pages) of the first meeting and the offical record (8 pages) is the reporting of an, exchange between Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Allen Dulles. The official record reads as follows: The Attorney General then asked what step should we have taken at that time .rat the time the anti-Castro policy was being formulated in March of 1960] if we had known what we know now, and did we have any policy then. Mr. Dulles replied we did have a policy, which was 8/ to overthrow Castro in one way or another. In the verbatim transcript of that exchange, the Attorney General ~aid: Now could I ask something? What, and maybe it is premature to ask this-- maybe you want to give it some thought --what, in looking back on it, should we have done or steps should we have tak.en at that time which would have been more effective than taking the steps that we did take? In other words, if you had known or knew then what you know now that all these arms were being sent in by the Soviet Union, [and] that Castro would really in a major way create a police state--which wasn't anticipated-- what steps would you have taken at thag/ time? Did you ever think about that? - * There is no evidence to support the belief that either European troops or technicians were involved in the fighting nor is there any evidence that Migs were in use. The only jets which were observed were FAR T-33's or USN A4-D's. The closest X'eference the author has seen to a possible Slav or East European name at the invasion site was a reference ~o a Commandante Tomassevich y Alerneida who ~'s in action at Playa Giron on D+2 with Castro's forces._ ~r"! " ! 'J ... V ':~ ~. ,. '.' >4l