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The letter also stated: In your letter of April 22 [1961J, you invited me to submit an individual report subject to the review and comment of my associates. As we have found no difficulty in reaching a unanimous view on all essential points under consideration, we are submitting this view as a jointly agreed study. 2/* As will be noted, the above statement ignored that the most controversial question about the Bay of Pigs operation--how close the landing came to success--drew the only formal dissent recorded by the Commi~tee. Both Admiral Burke and DCI Dulles objected to the position taken by General Taylor and Attorney General Kennedy that the project never could have succeeded. 2. The Four Memoranda a. Memorandum No. 1 "Narrative of the Anti-Castro Cuban Operation Zapata" is a 36 page summary based on the testimony taken from more that 60 witnesses in a little over five weeks. There also were 32 Annexe"s which were specifically cited in support of Memorandum No.1. These annexes represented a selection from among the many hundreds of pages of background information and documents which had been requested from CIA, DOD, and State by the committee during the course of the individual meetings and _conversations with witnesses. In the introduction to "Narrative of the Anti-Castro Operation Zapata," the committee outlined President Eisenhower's * For a complete copy of Taylor's 13 June 1961 memorandum see Appendix E. 181