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aircraft and into international waters, five same ground that had been gone over by Lynch and Robertson. In resI?onse to a direct question, I lindicated the possibility that Castro .Cuban observers might have spotted the invasion. fleet from the light house which had figured in Admiral Clark's testimony. / /also specified that he encountered problems with the Cuban members of the crew of the Rio Escondido which had been sunk off of Blue beach, the Blagar having picked up most of the crew members--all of whom, incidentally, escaped as the ship sank. According tol~ ~lstory, these Cubans absolutely ~efused to be transported to the beacb to join the fight against Castro; and in addition, as the invasion fleet was moving out of range of Castro's members of~1 ~Icrew joined with some of the crew from the Rio Escondido in an atte~pt to take over the engine room of the Blagar. !told the CSG that he succeeded in talking the men out of this, but Gray Lynch, on the other hand, indicated that there. was some degree of force that he and some of the other crew members of the' Blagar applied to regain control of the 73/ vessel, ~ ~!also explained to the committee that the plan to resupply the beachhead with ammunition had been cancelled on 0+2 because air cover would not have been available and he