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Statement: I think it's just a question of too many papers being confused. 127/ With that single statement the committee then passed on to other subjects--once again emphasizing their failure to pursue a matter which could have and should have been of critical importance to the Secretary of Defense regardless of how many papers were under study. Surely such a JCS position should have warranted the attention of the President's National Security Advisor and probably the President himself. With reference to the zapata plan, General Lemnitzer and the committee clashed over the issue of whether the invading brigade was prepared to go to guerrilla status. For whatever reason, General Lemnitzer had it in his head that the brigade had been trained in guerrilla warfare tactics, and consequently he stated: It was our understanding of the plan without any doubt that moving into the guerrilla phase was one of the important elements of the plan, and any idea that the Chiefs considered that they were making an indefinite lodgment on the beachhead is not right. Every bit of information that we were able to gather from the CIA was that the guerrilla aspects were always con- sidered as a main element of the plan. The response by one of the committee members was: General, if you look at that area and talk with anybody who has been there, you couldn't possibly become guerrillas in that damn place. General Lemnitzer, however, chose to make an analogy with the situation in Vietna~.