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after that they put me down at 1483 N. Claiborne as Truck Manager and to build a business down there servicing and selling trucks. I took Mr. DESLATTE, MONNIN and another man with me that we hired. We went down there and set up a little organization So while we were down there, this was in about '61 I believe. The early part of '61 as far as I can remember. There probably is a date on this paper that the FBI - to MONTH, JG: January of '61. E NOTE N P. I FS: Well they come down and picked it up with two pieces of plastic. They did'nt even put their fingerprints on it. 1 And slid these two pieces of plastic on each side of it and offered us a receipt for it and took it with them. JG: In other words, they expected to find fingerprints on it? FS: Yes, but I don't think the man ever touched it, really. We did, but I don't think he did. Then OSCAR come to me, these men were in the office, and he come to me and he said "I got some kind of Freedom or Free Democrats of Cuba" or something. He had a name for it. He come in my office and he said, kind of contributing to Cuba. He said : RAMMAREAUS HYPIST they need ten buses, or they want to bid on 10 buses. Do : you want to give them a good deal on it? Well, I said, to seeing it's that and they're having a hard time down there to let's make it $50.00 over cost. for each one of them. See if they want to buy them. That's my words. And so he keny says that's okay boss and he walked back out of the office and he prepared to make up this bid which took a short time writing up the technicalities. With him was two men. One of them was kind of a heavy set man, I would say; not overly well built. JG: (Not understandable) ES: I can' remember that. He was curley haired. I remember that; olive complexioned) and seemed to be educated.) As far as mechanics, he was real good because he was a technician as I can remember because he asked me questions I didn't even know about the thing myself and it was my product. JA: Did he have an accent at all? FS: Yes. JA: Was it a Spanish accent? FS: Well as far as I can remember - I don't know Spanish from - I would say it was like most of these Spanish that come in and try to buy now. It was similar. So then he asked me some questions, he asked . OSCAR some questions and I went back and forth because I had customers I was working with. I had tickets I had to get worked up. I was working to build a business as a Service Manager and at that time I didn't even have a Service Representative. I was writing the tickets and had 3 or 4 mechanics working in the back. I answered all the questions I could and -4-

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