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Unientant letters
Re: (1) BANISTER
(2) CUBAD
To:archinez
Bauister - Railm
Banasher,
EXILES
For: Friends
operation
of Denr. Cula & Industed
MR JIM GARRISON
files
NEN ORLEANS POLICE DEPT.
gr
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
III EARLY_ JANUARY OF 1.961 1 WENT TO NEW ORLEANS DHILE ON A BUNNING AROUND THE
COUNTRY EXPEDITION. AS MY FUNDS VERE LOU AT THAT TIME, I BE AAN LOOKING FOR
A JOB. WHILE FOLLOWING A JOB LEAD ON A SIDE STREET OFF CANAL STREET -
I
THE NAME OF THE STREET - I NOTED A BUILDING ALL DECKEO OUT
IN RED, VHITE AND BLUE BANNERS 91TH A THE FROMY IN LE ITERS
AT LEAST A FOOLIALL, SAYING FRIENDS OF DEMOCRATIC. CUEA (LATER THE NAME VAS
CHANCED).
D SONDEREO AT THIS AS CASTRO DAS AT THAT TIME MAKING INTERNATIONAL PLEAS: FOR
MILITARY AID AS THERE WAS, HE SAID, GOING TO 85, AN !evasion FRON THE UNITED
STATES. AND HE HAD LONG SINCE DECLARED OUBA CONMUNIST. so 1 FENT IN TO
ENFORM THESE PEOPLE THAT CUBA WAS NOT A DE NOCAATIC BUT A DICTATORIAL NATION.
I STEPPED INTO THE SITUATION 1 HAVE E VER ENCOUNTERED.
SUPPOSEOLY, THIS ORGANIZATION AND ITS PEOPLE WERE COLLECTING CLOTHING, F000,
MONEY AND NEDICAL SUPPLIES, ETC, FOR CUBAN REFUGEES WHO DERE COURVG OVER TO
THE U.S. TINE ORGANIZATION TAS IN_EFFECT, I LEARNED SHORTLY, A FRONT FOR THE
SCHENE DE AN INVASION OF CUBA AND THIS ZAS ONE OF THEIR HAVING
NO PLADE TO STAY, TREY INVITED VE TO STAY VITH THEN IN THIS DEFICE AREA THEY
IN EXCHANGE FOR USE OF MY CAR.
I BECAUE ACQUAINTED A NUMBER OF PEOPLE THE LIKE OF #HI H 1 THOUGNT EXISTED
ONLY IN MOVIES. SHEN YOUR ASSASSINATIONNVESTIOATION CAME TO LIGHT 1 RECOGHIZEO
Y HANY OE THE FACES AND NIMES AS THOSE : MAD ASSOCIATED WITH FOR OVER
TWO MONTHS AND KNEW AS UNPREDICTABLE CHARACTERS.
S ME GUY BAMNISTER AND TALKEO 21TH MIM 111 GROUPS A NULLEE OF - HE EXPLAINED
HIMSELF TO ANLEX FBI MAN ZHO MAS AND NOJ DOLNG PRIVATE INVESTIGATING.
HE HAR SOME OF DELUSTIONS OF BANDEUB 1 11104 OFFICE IN CUSA
AETER THE BHEN THE FIRST PLAN FOR INVASION DIDN'T MARIALIZE
(THERE DAS THREE SUCH JHILE I WAS THERE) ME SUGGESTEO A MILD SCHEAE TO ORGANIZE
A "PLACK BRIGARD" 07 ANTI BANDIDOS, WHICH DAS TO BE NAUEO
BASTARDS" AND JERE TO FIGHT SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICAN GUERRILAS
ANYZHERE AND EVERYWHERE, FOR PAY FROM OF COUNTRIES. HE CAME INTO
THE OFFICE ALONE MOST OF THE TIME BUT SOMETINES HE HAD OTHER MEN
THOUOH MIS NATURE VAS NOT NEARLY AS EXPLOSIVE AS THE LATINS THERE, SOUE OF
HIS
IDEAS VERE WILD TO SAY THE LEAST. AN INTERESTING POINT.. AS BELL AS $ CAN
REMEMBER HIU, HE LOOKEO A GREA T DEAL LIKE THE PICTURES I HAVE SEEN OF CLAY
ONE OF THE DISGRONTEBO CUSANS : BE CANE ACQUAINTEO ZITH RAS SERG10 - CAN'T REMENBER
HIS LAST HAVE - 17 BAS SOMETHING LIKE ARCADIS. HE DAS ALWAYS INNACULATELY DRESSED
IN A BLUC SUIT, WELL SHAVEN AND ALOOF. HE MAS THE CHIEF SPIRLI IN NEM ORLEANS FOR
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE INVASION. MOST OF HIS COHORTS SERE EVIDENTLY OF THE
SAME SOC!O CONORIC LEVEL, USED TO COMMAND AND MANTEO THEASELVES TO ES CHIEF.
THEREFORE THEY COULD NOT SEEM TO SE ORGANIZED. I REMEMBER THAT ONE OF HIS PLANS
WAS TO HAVE A FLOAT III THE GRAS PARADE CONSISTING OF A LARGE CUBAN FLAG -
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