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transaction was occurring at a time when this organization was
engaged in gathering material for the C.I.A.'s attempted invasion
at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. This indirect procedure was being
used to acquire military equipment for the invasion in order to.
support the posture - later adopted by the United States
government - that the invasion had been developed and launched
solely by anti-Castro Cubans. At the time of the bid, the young
man using Oswald's name told the Ford people, "You ought to sell
us these trucks at cost. This is for a patriotic
The young man using Oswald's name was accompanied by a husky
character who appeared to be Latin and who had a distinctive one
inch vertical scar through his left eyebrow. The powerful
looking Latin would later be seen regularly at another operation
out of Banister's place. After the real Lee Oswald's return to
New Orleans in the summer of 1963, when he began flamboyantly
handing out the pro-Castro leaflets, the man with the scar would
always be present on the edge of the crowd - out of range of the
cameras - as his bodyguard.*
*This is standard operating procedure for intelligence when an
employee or agent is engaged in a provocative activity. The
nearby bodyguard is insurance against a violent reaction from
some individual in the crowd. Additional insurance is also
acquired by selecting a controlled environment for the
provocative scene. For example, the most widely photographed
locale when Oswald played the "agent provocateur" was at the
entrance of the International Trade Mart, which was. operated by
Clay Shaw, a man who long since has been confirmed to have been a
C.I.A. employee. For more information regading Shaw see Chapter
6, THE MYSTERIOUS WORLD OF CLAY SHAW, and Chapter 8, THE COMPANY
OF FRIENDS.
C
1984
Jim Garrison
NW 12640 ocId:59167984 Page 20
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