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forward, and I was able to direct the investigation where it could locate more of the
suppressed and ignored data collected by the government but not used in the official
Report.” 565 Weisberg praised Garrison as “indefatigable, fearless, and, I am confident,
incorruptible.” 566 The former Senate committee investigator looked forward to
Garrison’s prosecution of businessman Clay Shaw as a sign the alleged conspiracy would
be exposed, but his hopes would be dashed.
Weisberg focused on Oswald’s connections to “Cuban refugee groups” that he
called “the mendicants, the creatures of the CIA.” 567 He outlined a plot in which anti-
Castro Cubans and people with ties to the CIA, allegedly including Clay Shaw, David
Ferrie, and Guy Bannister, conspired to kill Kennedy. Weisberg claimed that Oswald’s
supposed branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee was an “entirely phony one-man,
self-designated non-organization” designed to provide “the establishment of what in
intelligence is known as a ‘cover.’” 568 Oswald’s leaflets with the 544 Camp Street
address connected him, not to the pro-Castro movement, but to its violent opposition
supported by the CIA. Weisberg claimed that Oswald was gathering whatever
information he could about those sympathetic to Castro on behalf of Bannister’s detective
agency, the Cuban exiles, and ultimately the CIA. He documented what he called a “vast
intelligence operation” to monitor Oswald. In his words, “The spook-master must know
565
Harold Weisberg, Oswald in New Orleans: Case for Conspiracy with the CIA, (New
York: Canyon Books, 1967), 25-26.
566
Weisberg, 401.
567
Weisberg, 32.
568
Weisberg, 38.
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