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its decayed and weatherbeaten surroundings. Upstairs was located
the New Orleans headquarters of Naval Intelligence, Banister's
wartime affiliate. * The building also was the location of the
headquarters for the New Orleans Secret Service operation.
I walked down Lafayette Street, toward the Mississippi
River, to look at two other addresses on the 600 block of
Magazine Street which I had jotted down from my reading about Lee
Oswald's movements. One was the Reily Coffee Company, where
Oswald had been listed as an employee in 1963. This had been
shortly before his famous emergence on the city streets handing
out the circulars calling for Fair Play for Fidel Castro of Cuba.
You would have to be practically a stranger to the city
not to know that William Reily, the coffee company's president,
for years had been engaged in actively supporting -- along with
Guy Banister -- the anti-Castro movement.
Looking at the coffee company, I recalled the affidavit
from its vice president in which Oswald had been described as
having been discharged from the company because of his failure to
work diligently. I knew the vice-president who had sworn out the
affidavit as I happened to have known Guy Banister, Guy Johnson
*This I had happened to have learned earlier from Guy Johnson, a
long time prosecutor in the District Attorney's office and a
friend of mine, who -- having been active in Naval Intelligence
in World War II and subsequently in the O.N.I. Reserves went
there frequently.
**I learned this from the New Orleans telephone directory after I
had returned home.
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