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was ordered to remain at sea.* In response to a request for his opinion of how things might have been better, I-------- pointed out that the ships which they had been forced to use were really inadequate for the task; and he noted that in his own case he would have pre-ferred to have a vessel similar to a Coast Guard cutter. j jClosed his testimony with the following remark which, if not made with tongue in cheek should have been--"We had a lot of explosives 75/ and ammunition aboard. I don't know if that was advisable." - * Although the official record indicates no problems with reference to] Itestimony on this sUbject, Gray Lynch told the writer: That ammunition••• they Ithe CSG] made a lot of this. In fact, Bobby Kennedy got very indignant talking to I . I You know--why he didn't continue on 1n there that n1ght Ithe night of 0+1/0+2]--as though this was a very critical thing. Well, when you are talking about a 1,OOO-man pack that soulds like a great deal tonnage-wise. But this was kits--so many M-l rifles, so many machine guns, and so forth--and a very small amount of that was ammuniction. What they really needed in there was the ammunition from the ships--not in hundreds of pounds like we had, but in tons. 74/ Because Lynch. testified very briefly at the 8th meeting just before I ~session, it appears that Lynch was still present wnen] Jwas being questioned. There was no indication 1n ne 0 ficial record ofl I meeting of any criticism from Robert Kennedy. poss1biy Lynch was present when Rip Robertson was the witness earlier in this Same session. There was a note of criticism in the questions and comments regarding the possible resupply of ammunition on 0+1/0+2, and Lynch may have confused the witnesses. 80