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but there were many others. 820 In any case, the rumors reflect the general
"right wing" perception of where the Courtneys were coming from.
OSWALD's ADL-FBI CONNECTION(S)
In Chapter 15, of course, we examined Guy Banister's own close
association with A. I. (Bee) Botnick, the self-described "super communist
hunter" who headed the Stern family-financed New Orleans office of the
ADL. We also considered the very real possibility that Lee Harvey Oswald's
activities in New Orleans were, in fact, part of an ADL "fact finding"
operation contracted out by the ADL to Banister's private detective agency.
In this context, then, it is thus appropriate to recall other interesting details
that have been lost in the debate over who was manipulating Lee Harvey
Oswald prior to the assassination of President Kennedy.
In 1962, Ned Touchstone, editor of the Bossier Press in Bossier City,
Louisiana, investigated the bombing of a black Masonic lodge in Louisiana.
While the rest of the media portrayed the crime as the act of the KKK,
Touchstone believed that since most of the KKK leaders in the area were
Masons that it was unlikely they would destroy a Masonic lodge. Although
the FBI tried to intimidate him into dropping his investigation, Touchstone
learned of "the crooked hair pilot," 821 (later identified as Banister associate
David Ferrie) who landed a plane in the area prior to the bombing.
Thus, a year prior to the JFK assassination Touchstone concluded Ferrie
had been working as an agent of the FBI's COINTELPRO in association
with Banister's ADL contact, Botnick, who was indeed working closely with
the FBI in connection with the bombing.
However, by March 15, 1964, Touchstone had independently pinpointed
Ferries connection to the JFK assassination 822 all the more pertinent
because of Ferries ties to both Oswald and Banister.
Although such would-be conspiracy debunkers as the CIA-connected
Gerald Posner (author of Case Closed) have sought to deny that Oswald had
any connections with CIA contract operative David Ferrie there is
photographic evidence refuting Posner and the debunkers. There has now
been discovered a 1955 photograph of a young Oswald in the company of
Ferrie, then Oswald's commander in the Civil Air Patro1. 823
Yet Touchstone's discoveries have remain suppressed precisely (or, at
least in part) because they pointed directly toward the ADL's ties to these
key figures in the JFK assassination conspiracy who were, in turn, also
linked to the intrigue of both the FBI and the CIA in the same time frame.
And although there's been discussion of the possibility that Oswald was
an FBI informant of some sort and of what relationship he had with Dallas
FBI agent James Hosty, it has finally been reported by Ray and Mary
LaFontaine, authors of Oswald Talked, that Hosty was "an investigator of
right-wing groups" 824 and "right-wing subversives." 825
Thus, there can be no doubt that Hosty, in fact, was working closely
with the Anti-Defamation League, one of the FBI's most valued "sources"