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\ The single witness at the fifteenth meeting of the Taylor Committee on 16 May 1961, was Captain Jacob Scapa, US Navy, who was the naval adviser for the project. Capt. Scapa had been responsible for reviewing the naval plan, but his actual contact wi~h the naval contingent had been limited to four days at Puerto Cabezas prior to the departure of the invasion vessels for Cuba. Capt. Scapa took a fair amount of flak from members of the committee, again unidentified, during the course of the discussion of the unloading plan for the vessels in the Bahia de Cochinos. There was some particularly severe criticism about the decisions not to attempt to run the arms packs which were carried by the LCI's Blagar and Barbara J in to Blue Beach during the night of D-Day and the early morning of D+l--the fear being that it would have been impossible to get the vessels in I and out before daylight at which time they would have been subject to air attack from Castro's Fuerza Aerea Revolucionaria. The committee made a point in asking why the ships hadn't been put at risk since it was known that there was an ammunition shortage at the beach. The committee further pointed out that the two LCls had survived serious air attacks on D-Day and with the other vessels had fled safely into international waters. The best that Capt. Scapa could present by way of argument was that it was feared that the vessels would be sunk and, in addition, no ammunition would be landed. 130