Final_Judgment

Appendix Three
"Communist Blood Red"
Guy Banister & Kent and Phoebe Courtney—
The Leaders of the Right Wing's Pro-Israel Clique:
The New Orleans "Israeli Connection"
There's no doubt about it. Former FBI agent and CIA
contract operative Guy Banister was a strident anticommunist
and a tried-and-true "right winger." Everybody
knows that. What most people don't know is that Banister's
best-known "right wing" associates—Kent and Phoebe
Courtney—were staunch supporters of Israel and widely
suspected of being assets of the Anti-Defamation League
(ADL) of B'nai B'rith. The truth about the Courtneys puts a
n e w l i g h t o n t h e B a n i s t e r c o n n e c t i o n t o t h e J F K
assassination conspiracy. There's much more to the New
Orleans aspect of the conspiracy that needs to be told.
JFK assassination researchers (particularly those of what might be
deemed "the liberal stripe") have devoted much time and energy to
"detecting" the "right-wing extremist" connections of various parties (both
guilty and innocent) who have been connected to the JFK assassination
conspiracy in one form or another. Those researchers who do agree that
former FBI agent and CIA contract operative Guy Banister of New Orleans
did have some peculiar role in setting up Lee Harvey Oswald as the "patsy"
in the assassination are fond of citing Banister's "right wing" connections.
Most often noted is Banister's connection to a flamboyant couple—
vigorous anti-communists—Kent and Phoebe Courtney, founders of an
organization known as the Conservative Society of America. Mrs. Courtney
is even said to have ordered her steaks "Communist Blood Red," for which
we thank her for the title of this appendix.
The Courtneys reportedly claimed after the assassination that Oswald had
tried to get employment on their newspaper, The Independent American during
his sojourn in New Orleans the summer before the assassination. 816
Presumably, it would seem, for the "pro-Castro" Oswald to spy on his anticommunist
rivals. However, what is most often pointed out by the liberal
researchers seeking to find a "right wing conspiracy" behind JFK's
assassination is that after Banister's death, at least a portion of his personal
files came into Kent Courtney's possession. 817
This, in fact, may be significant—although certainly the "liberal"
researchers clearly wouldn't understand why, inasmuch as their evident bias
and lack of understanding of the dynamics of the political mazes of the
American "right" precludes any such understanding. That having been said,
why, then, is Courtney's receipt of Banister's files significant in light of the
thesis outlined in the pages of Final Judgment?