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of the Trinidad and the Zapata plans for the invasion. The introduction ofl linto the Committee room resulted from Jake Esterline's remark that an American pilot who had part~cipated in the air operations on the morning of 0+2 (19 April) was available for questioning by the committee. __________________IThomas "Pete" Ray, one of the Americans who had been killed in a B-26 shot down over Cuba on 0+2. Unfortunately, the CSG seems to have been more j.mp~essed byl Ithan by either Gar Teegen (pseudo) who was in charge of over-all air operations at the time of the invasion or Col. George Germosen (pseudo) of OPO who was assigned to work directly with the WH/4 task force in Washington. _________Iwas a briefing and debriefing officer for the air operations flown out of Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua--the strike base for the anti-Castro effort. On the morning of 19 April, he volunteered to fly as an observer with the American pilots who headed toward the invasion beach in support of the collapsing brigade but who were recalled when it was learned that two of the ~ircraft ~iloted by the Americans had been shot down. When 1 lappeared to testify before the CSG, Col. J. C. King apparently initiated the questioning--even though King was not a member of the CSG.* The first question that King asked * Except ~or members of the CSG and two military officers-- Lt. Col. Tarwater, the official recorder, and Commander Mitchell, Admiral Burke's. ai.de--Col. K~ng attended more sessions of the CSG than anyone else. He was present at nearly two-thirds of the sessions. 35 I .'. ,I.J/i