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    "ocrText": "Ext.\nOFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY\nPARISH OF ORLEANS\nSTATE OF LOUISIANA\nJANUARY 19, 1967\nSTATEMENT OF:\nDELPHINE ROBERTS, WF, Secretary to the late\nGuy Banister and Treasurer of Guy Banister\nand Associates, Inc.\nRESIDING AT:\n6569 Wuerpel\nTELEPHONE NO. :\n482-6413\nI was associated with Guy Banister starting around\nMarch, 1962 in the capacity of a confidential secretary.\nLater he trained me to be an executive and I was officially\nthe Treasurer of Guy Banister and Associates, Inc. up until\nthe time of his death, June 6, 1964. During the time of my\nassociation with Mr. Banister's Office I had occasion to be\nintroduced to about six Cubans who were interested in over-\nthrowing Castro, that is how he introduced us. They went\ninto Mr. Banister's office and closed the door and conversation\ntook place, but I didn't listen, I was busy so I don't know\nexactly what took place. Later I had occasion to see the same men\nAt that time there were ten in an office in the Balter Building\neither the second or third floor. The least expensive office\n-\neither $25 a week or month rent. As I passed this office\ngoing in the direction of Camp Street, the office was on the\nright hand side. I was on the verge of entering Richard's\nOffice ( I don't recall his last name. He was from Honduras\nnot a naturalized citizen from what I understand). At this\ntime he was in the export business and his work carried him down\nto Honduras and Guatemala quite frequently. When I reached\nthe entrance of his office I was surprised to see these same\nmen sitting in this office I had met earlier in Mr. Banister's\noffice. They seemed surprised to see me and to know that\nI knew Richard. I called Richard's name aloud and he poked\nhis head around the door. He was sitting at his desk, back\nto the hall, and asked me to see him at another time so\nI left. I did not see him until sometime later I ran into\nhim unexpectedly on the street and that was around Whitney\nBank on St. Charles at Gravier turning toward Camp Street.\nI\nwas walking with Mr. ames Murphy and Richard approached me\nasking to speak a moment to me. My escort was uneasy about\nit because of the man's general condition. He looked like\na tramp, some people may have called him a wino, but he\nwasn't and he told me he had been beaten up by these people\nconnected with the Communist movement who were smuggling.\nNow, they were, the same ones that were connected with the people\nwho put up the money for him to establish a business here, --\nexport - import. I think that business was a front."
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