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    "ocrText": "then. He was widely regarded a \"Communist\" a year or so before the\nU-2 incident; I began to acquire a similar reputation with the brass\nin MACS-1 from about the time of the U-2 incident (May of 1960, I\nbelieve) on until my discharge in October of 1960.\n(It seems odd to me that the Office of Naval Intelligence could\nfind no references to Oswald in its files in 1963, nor any to me\nin 1975 when I recently made a Freedom of Information inquiry.\nI think it possible that someone in the Naval Intelligence bureaucracy\nmay have seen to it such files if they ever existed, were misplaced\nor stolen or simply destroyed. 3\nI continued work on The Idle Warriors after I got out of the\nMarine Corps. I also continued a close relationship with one\nother Marine from 11ACS-9/MACS-1. This man struck up a friendship\nwith me at the time I knew Oswald. He and I were then assigned\noverseas duty together in MACS-1, where our friendship continued.\nIn Marine Air Control Squadron 1 at Atsugi this individual had the\nhighest security job of any enlisted man in the outfit. If I had\nsome kind of intelligence \"babysitter\" when I was in the service\nit was almost certainly this man. His name is Bud Simco and his\nimmediate superior was Lt. Ballentine together they maintained\nthe TOP SECRET Security and Classified files (S&C files) for the\nSquadron. I wish to stress that I do not at all believe Mr. Simco\nwas involved in any illegal activities or any activities relating\ndirectly to the John Kennedy assassination. Approached by a\nlegally constituted authority I think Mr. Simco would\nsay truthfully whether or not he was ever assigned to submit\nreports on me. We spent most of our free time together. The\nlatest phone number I have for Bud is apparently misplaced, but I\nobtained it by calling his old place of work, Vorpal Galleries in\nSan Francisco. (If there is difficulty locating him I can probably\nget his number or address from one of our mutual friends.\nThe hypothesis that I was spied on by Naval ntellignece is not\ncentral to my major hypothesis to be introduced later, but I think\nit is something which can be investigated easily and, if established,\nwould answer some questions which must otherwise remain up in the air.\nFrom the time of my discharge at the end of October, 1960, until\nFebruary of 1961 I lived on my discharge money in Southern California\nand attempted to promote the opening chapters of The Idle Warriors\nin dramatic monologue live presentation form. Bud got back from\nJapan a month after I did and went to work as an insurance investigator.\nAnother friend and I decided in early 1961 to go to New Orleans\ntogether and take up residence there. This was Greg Hill who presently\nresides at 55 E. Houston, Apt. 4-E, New York, NY and whose phone is\n212-226-6515,\nGreg and I arrived in New Orleans on the day after Mardi Gras of\n1961. We had a difficult time finding work. Our living conditions\nwere sparse and harsh. I continued work on The Idle Warriors, writing\nthe chapters in short-story form and sending them off to publications\nlike Playboy, in hopes of selling one of them for $2,000, meanwhile\nliving of: French bread from the day-old bakery\nThormly spents\nBy this time my politics had gone through another change. I had\nfluent Spannesh\nbecome a Marxist upon seeing my first starving people when MACS-\nwas\nNo need for\nhim to starns."
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