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Admiral Burke then joined in the conversation saying: Guerrillas couldn't sustain themselves in any of these areas [the Escambray or the Zapata swamps] until they got support from the populace. Supplies would have to be carried in to them until they received support from the populace. At this point the Attorney General apparently joined the discussion saying: "The President had the same impression that you did--that if worse came to worse, this group could become guerrillas, but as we've gotten into it, it's become obvious that this possibility never really existed." To this General Lemnitzer is reported to have said, "Then we were badly misinformed."* Allen Dulles finally inter- jected himself into the discussion in response to a comment that another committee member had made suggesting that unless the whole brigade had had training and instruction, they never could have gone. guerrilla. Mr. Dulles said: * On the day following his testimony before the Taylor Committee, Lemnitzer testified (19 May 1961) before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on American Republic Affairs which was investigating the Bay of Pigs operation. Once again Lemnitzer confused the guerrilla option of the Trinidad Plan with the Zapata Plan. 128/ 137'"