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    "ocrText": "cartering\ng\nhave\nI rode with my parents down to the Mexican border in late\nAugust and bought a bus ticket in Iijuana for Mexico City.\nDuring the week I wound up spending in Hexico City I lived in\nthe Hotel Harlin and had no contacts whatever with anyone who\nspoke English. (I had taken Spanish all during high school and\nduring my one year of college and had worked with Latin American\nwaiters and bus boys at the Sheraton-Charles -- many of thich,\nincidentally, were anti-Castro Cubans. My Spanish was therefore\ngood enough so that I could get by.\nNexico City was a great disappointment to me. Not only was it\nmuch less exotic than Manila, which I had expected it to resember\nbut it was also much more expensive than I had anticipated. That\nis why I wound up leaving at the end of a weel instead of going\nthrough with my plan to spend a month there.\nShortly of ter I returned to New Orleans during, I think, the\nfirst week in September, Lee Harvey Oswald -- probably acting\non the instructions of FBI agent Hosty -- went to Mexico City.\nIdid not learn that Oswald had been to Mexico City until after\nthe assassination, and when I did find out that not only bad\nthe been there but that his visit there had accurred a couple of\nweeks after mine, I began to realize that others might have good\nreason for suspecting me of being part of an assassination cons-\npiracy.\nIf the plans for Oswald to go to Mexico City could for some\nreason not have been changed at the last minute, I think it is\npossible that the assassins planned somehow to get us involved\nwith each other in Mexico City and that my early return to New\nOrlcans might have foiled that expectation,\nPerhaps not. In any case, SIIM Can't therefore Gary was\nundoubtedly one of the first people to hear about it when I got\nback to the French Quarter in early September.\nliy closest friend during September, October, and November of\n1963 was Clint Bolton. Earlier I sketched out some of Clint's\ninteractions with me during that period, but did not include my\nrecent speculations as to what Clint was doing in relation to\na possible arcassination conspiracy.\nIn 1968 when I came under Jim Garrison's suspicion, members\nof his staff (namely Andrew Sciambra) told me that Clint Bolton\nhad worked writing publicity for various CIA anti-Castro groups.\nIt got back to me second-hand that Garrison regarded Clint as my\n?\nCIA babysitter. The notion that a Princeton gentleman like Clint\nBolton would have taken part in a murder plot against somcone like\nJohn E. Kennedy has always struck me as abrurd in the extreme.\nHowever, it is entirely possible that Clint would have takeen\npart in such a conspiracy unwittingly, under the illusion that it\nwas an official U.S. operation to assassinate Castro,\nFilint was friends both with CLAT straw and WITh Guy Bannister.\nIt strikes me as extremely possible that Bannister might have told\nhim Oswald was going to assassinate Castro and have assigned him\nto coach me in revritting The Idle Varriors in order to provide\ncover that would emphasize Oswald's \"Ioncr\" qualities and thereby\nhelprisoncopiate him from the Central Intelligence Agency and/or\nFederal Burehu of Investination,"
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