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some contradictions when for example, he told the committee that his report had showed that the logistics "capability was marginal without resistance, but impossible with it." This was more positive than his contribution to the JCS memorandum which stated that there was "a marginal capability of operating tor a period of thirty days with the present logistical 48/ organi.zation." - "----- ---l!testimony was most questionable with reference to the impact that the change from Trinidad to Zapata had on logistics operations. I Iresponse to the CSG--that it made no difference--is difficult to understand in view of the fact tha.t the Trinidad operation was to be conducted in daylight with materiel and equipment to be unloaded directly from the ships onto trucks at the dock. Zapata called for an across-the- beach movement as the LCVPs and LCUs unloaded the supply ships at these separate landing sites in a night conducted operation. As in other instances durin<J the course of the committee's 49/ investigations, no one present challenged the witness. The sixth meeting be<Jan with the reading of a report of a session between a CIA representative and some 60 Cuban ~eturnees who had belonged to the brigade's air force contingent. These witnesses put an end to the stories that had circulated through the previous meetings that Castro's FAR had employed MIG aircraft. The airmen reported that no such planes were in evidence, nor did they believe that any of the aircraft , ... 59 ,I,.,