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they would fall back on the beach for sea evacuation and if that didn't work, then they should go guerrilla?" Hawkins disagreed with that statement saying that he knew what he had told I Ito brief the troops on, but, not being present for the briefing, did not know what exactly was said. Hawkins said his instructions to~1 ~Iwere that if Blue Beach was collapsing the troops should retreat north towards Red Beach which did provide the best access for escape and evasion and tor guerrilla action. If the Red Beach area collapsed first, the troops were to move to join up with the forces at Blue Beach. Hawkins refused to make any comment about having instructed~1 ~Ito tell the troops to go into guerrilla status. The questioning of Col. Hawkins then focused on air operations, particularly on the question of whether the T-33s per se were planned as targets for the air strikes. Once again, however, there were sins of commission on the part of both witness and interrogators. Hawkins pointed out that the T-33s as such we.re not singled out as targets, but were included in the inventory ot all Castro aircraft which were scheduled for destruction by air strikes. Unfortunately, however, he suggested that "the T-birdswere more effective than we anticipated. I don't believe we thought they would be as dangerous to us as the B-26s." This opinion was contrary to the estimates the Agency's air operations personnel. 1/4 . -