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to formalize the final reconnaissance requirements for Project JMATE. Among other items it was agreed that there would be complete overhead coverage of Cuba beginning as of D-3; there would be both pre- and post-strike reconnaissance of primary targets; and the post-strike photography would be done as soon as possible after the initial D-Day strike, with follow- up coverage on the afternoon of D-Day. Such follow- up post-strike coverage as required, or special photo- graphic requirements that developed during the course of the operation, were also noted in the discussions of 3 April 1961 between Gaines and Lt. Col. Songer of the Special Projects Branch. 99/* In addition to the early call for photo reconnais- sance requirements, there were other considerations of immediacy to early planning for air operations. Soon after Eisenhower's anti-Castro program had been announced WH/4 had d~ferred on a DPD request for estimates of air transport requirements for its operations in sup- port of the various anti-Castro guerrilla forces in * At the time that these reconnaissance requirements were being discussed, the operational .plan still called for the D-Day Air Strike. - 80 -