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Answer: There was no confusion of the time. I received a message that Navy air (CAP) would be provided. Question: Would you provide us with a copy of the message'? 108/* Answer: Yes. The twelfth meeting of the Cuban Study Group was held on 8 May 1961, and featured two distinct sets of witnesses. One set addressed themselves basically to the broader problems of how the US should plan to handle covert and Cold War operations and the second group was formed by the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff--General White of the Air Force, General Decker of the Army, and General Shoup of the Marine Corps. * Excluding Colonels Hawkins, I ~ / '/ who refused the author's request for 1nterv ews, Mr. Teegen, of all of those interviewed, clearly remains the one with the deepest feelings about the loss at the Bay of Pigs. He was frank and outspoken in his criticism of the cancellation of the D-Day strike and he was equally outspoken concerning the failure of the Kennedy Administra- tion to permit the subsequently requested support from USN jets off the Essex. With the possible exception of one or two of the other pilots, there probably was no American who was so closely involved with the personnel, both Cuban and American, who gave their lives in the course of the air operations over'Playa Giron. The writer was told that as the invasion was collapsing Headquarters received a suggestion from Puerto Cabezas that a disguised B-26 be used to bomb an isolated part of the US naval base at Guantanamo in order to create an "incident" to justify US intervention in Cuba. Although not confirmed, this is the sort of action that those in charge of air operations probably would have supported. 113