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Chapter 15 that we noted Botnick's close relationship to Guy Banister, the
ex-FBI official-turned-CIA coordinator of anti-Castro Cuban exile activities
in New Orleans.
It was, of course, out of Banister's office at 544 Camp Street that Lee
Harvey Oswald carried out apparent intelligence activities at Banister's
instruction and portrayed himself as a pro-Castro agitator.
SABOTAGE
The aforementioned Walter Sheridan's involvement in the Garrison case
went far beyond being a reporter who was simply out to do a hatchet job.
Instead, Sheridan was actually trying to sabotage Garrison's investigation by
interfering in the actual course of the inquiry.
As Garrison pointed out, Sheridan and his associates were "going far
beyond word games. They were engaged in an organized effort to derail an
official investigation of a major city's district attorney's office. They were
attempting to persuade witnesses to alter their testimony, even attempting
to move major witnesses permanently to another part of the country." 697
MORE FROM 'THE STERN GANG'
What is additionally interesting is that the ADL-linked Stern family-run
WDSU media had actually played a primary part in helping promote Lee
Harvey Oswald's image as a "pro-Castro" activist both before—and after—
the assassination of President Kennedy.
It was on August 16, 1963 that Oswald and a colleague appeared outside
Clay Shaw's International Trade Mart distributing pro-Castro leaflets.
Researcher Dick Russell points out two intriguing facts: "The leafleteers
were there for only a few minutes, yet the demonstration was filmed by
WDSU-TV, which happened to be on hand—apparently alerted in advance.
Jessie R. Core III, the public relations man for the International Trade Mart,
also attended the leafleting and alerted the FBI immediately afterward." 698
So it was that not only did the Stern family's television cameras just
happen to be there to capture Oswald, the "pro-Castro" activist, but
Permindex board member Clay Shaw's Trade Mart associate took the effort
to report the young "communist" to the FBI, thus cementing Oswald's
leftist image further.
This, however, was not the end of WDSU's involvement in promoting
Oswald's public image as a pro-communist agitator prior to the
assassination of President Kennedy.
On August 17 William Stuckey of WDSU Radio arranged for a radio
interview with Oswald in which the young man proclaimed his leftist
views. Then WDSU turned a copy of the tape over to the FBI.
There's more. On August 19 WDSU's Stuckey again contacted Oswald
and arranged for Oswald to appear in a debate with an anti-Castro activist
over his radio station. It was at this time that Oswald proclaimed himself a