ese attacks would cause riots and "defection of the Cuban Army." Soon the United States would find out that there was no real evidence!
             The plan was that the U.S. involvement would include and be limited to two pre-invasion air strikes. This would puncture the Cuban air force. "The pilots would be CIA agents posing as Cuban defectors, flying planes painted to look like they were stolen from the Cuban air force." Their backup plan, if something were to go wrong, was to hide in the mountains and continue with guerilla warfare. However, with all of these strategies and backup plans, there were still many disadvantages and consequences to the attack, one being that there was no exact evidence of hatred among the Cubans in Cuba against Castro. "Indeed most of Castro's foes were in exile or in prison." Another consequence the United States would face if the preliminary air strikes did not eliminate all of the Cuban forces was a counter-reaction. The planned land invasion would be cut to pieces. What would the United States do then? Kennedy failed to have a backup plan for this question.
             The first planned landing (Operation TRINIDAD) coincided with their backup plan for seeking refuge in the mountains. The revised plan (Operation ZAPATA) did not include this mountainous terrain for refuge. Operation ZAPATA brought the landing to the Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs); the mountains were unobtainable from there. The United States launched the first air strike on April 15, launching only six B-26 bombers, and they destroyed less than half of the Cuban air force. As one witness stated
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