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I have some Xeroxes of letters I wrote during this period of
time in which I talk about Slim. I also have many other
memories which I will be glad to provide when and if that becomes
necessary, including the names of one or two other witnesses who
knet.7 Slim then.
Instead of plunging into detail now, let me simply say that
Slim took me under his wing and made me feel at home in New Orleans.
Around the middle of April, Greg and I moved into an apartment in
Nill
the French Quarter on St. Louis.
On April 17th, which was my 23rd birthday -- and also, I realized
recently, the day of the Bay of Pigs invasion -- Slim, who was also
once a ship's barber, gave me a haircut.
Speaking of the Bay of Pigs invasion, there is one detail about
Slim which I had better mention here because I am almost sure now
that it is significant. Slim claimed that his hobby was navigation
and he had a great number of Federal navigational charts, rolled and
stacked in a pile in his apartment. Most of these, as I recall, or
of those that I saw, were of the Caribbean area.
Slim never voiced strong political opinions, but I believe in
retrospect that he was working with the anti-Castro groups then
functioning in Louisiana. I think he was probably a navigational
advisor on the Bay of Pigs invasion.
I also think our meeting at the Foster Awning Company may not have
been a chance meeting, but that Slim may have been assigned to
"intercept" me and "babysit" me because I was writing a book on
Lee Harvey Oswald who, for one of many possible reasons, may have
been of great interest to elements within the intelligence community
at that time.
Little tal/community's standard
Anital
It was shortly after Greg and I moved to the Quar ter from
the
slums of the Irish Channel) that Slim introduced me to Gary
Kirstein -- who he said was his brother-in-law, just in from
Kansas City. Slim warned me in advance that Gary was something of
a "weasel" a sly, shady character who lived on the fringes of
the criminal world.
Gary didn't look like a criminal at all. He dressed very straight.
He wore neatly pressed slacks and short-sleeved shirts. If anything,
he dressed like an off-duty policeman.
lie was an older man -- perhaps in his forties, certainly at least
in his thirties. He had brown hair and was balding, was of medium
build and height, smoled a pipe, and spoke in what was at times almost
a whine, except his words were clipped and precise. His accent was
mid-Western.
One of the first things I learned about Gary was that he also hated
Kennedy, but for somewhat different political reasons than mine.
Gary said that he was raised in a Germanic mid-Western family and
that he was Nazi. He and Slim used to joke about this, and also
about Gary's alleged skills at burglary.
Gary was keenly intelligent and had a flippant, light-hearted air
about him. Therefore, even though the content of his humor was often
sadistic, Gary did not seem "for real. " He never sounded angry for
example; but he cheerfully recounted the "little jokes" the Nazis had
played on the Jews and other victims of their prejudice.
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