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CIA was. The Secretary of Defense said, "CIA should not run such large operations. They simply don't have the facilities. We could have used our facilities on a non-attributable 84/ basis." Because the CSG sessions had been concerned with question of deniability--particularly as this had become increasingly difficult in the expanding operation--it seems somewhat strange that none of the committee members asked Secretary McNamara why he never had suggested to the President that US facilities be employed for the continued training of the brigade and that the facilities in Guatemala and Nicaraugua be closed down. As had been made clear from the initiation of the anti-Castro program, the Agency would have welcomed the opportunity to use US military bases as training sites in preference to the foreign bases they were forced to use in the futile attempt to insure deniability of US involvement. S€'!('!retary MCNamara's testimony concluded with a rather interesting speculation about the nature of planning for future Cuban type operations--in fact, it seems to have represented a ;r;-ather novel Clepa,rture in terms of the Agency's responsibility to support policy, rather than to make policy, Secretary McNama,ra saJd: Another alternative that might be desirable in the case of future Cubas is that the CIA, for example, would conceive the need for certain actions. CIA should tnen layout their basic plan and when they reach 88 ..', ':