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as of early November was nearly $35,000 a month. All of the aircraft, of course, were presumably leased to Senor Goudie, the FRO's finance man in Miami. 68/ The heavy demand for transport aircraft, of course, was explained by the sharp increases in man- power that resulted from the changing concepts of the anti-Castro program in the Fall of 1960.* The program calling for the infiltration of the three-man guerrilla teams had given way to the invasion program which, by the first week of December in 1960, called for a 750-man Brigade to seize and hold a lodgement in Cuba. A ISO-man element of that strike force would either be airdropped or air landed in the lodgement area. Air delivery of supplies to support the Brigade forces plus overflights to support the increasing numbers of dissidents -- who would be attracted to the anti- \¥ - Castro side as the Brigade's lodgement became more \ certain -- were estimated to run on the order of two million pounds for the period between 1 December 1960 and 28 February 1961. Of this total, 600,000 lbs. was * The change in concept of Project JMATE is discussed in detail in Volume III of this history, EvoZution of CIA's Anti-Castro PoZicies 3 1959-January 1961. - 56 -