The JFK Assassination by James DiEugenio

Author:James DiEugenio
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510739840
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2018-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

The FBI, DeBrueys, and Oswald

It is clear that Hoover had to have known about Oswald’s association with Guy Banister and 544 Camp Street. For starters, John Newman revealed a quite compelling piece of subterfuge in his book Oswald and the CIA. He wrote that the New Orleans FBI office had deleted from the final draft of a memo to Washington the following interesting information: “Several Fair Play for Cuba pamphlets contained the address 544 Camp Street.”110 This FBI dodge about Banister and Oswald went even further. For when the Bureau forwarded its very few and skimpy reports on Banister to the Warren Commission—in which they did not question him about Oswald—they failed to use the 544 Camp street address. They used the alternative address of 531 Lafayette.111 This may have some significance for the Commission did print one flyer Oswald had been distributing that summer. This was the famous Corliss Lamont pamphlet entitled “The Crime Against Cuba.” But on that particular document, Oswald had stamped the address 544 Camp Street.112 So even if they had tried to connect the two, which I doubt they would have, they could not.

As mentioned above, in spite of all this guilty knowledge, the FBI summary report portrayed Oswald as a Marxist loner. They could do that since none of these associations are mentioned. Same with the Warren Report.

It is interesting to note that it appears that the FBI point man on Hoover’s Minox camera caper was Warren DeBrueys. As John Armstrong has noted it was DeBrueys who went to the Dallas Police property clerk H. W. Hill.113 DeBrueys was one of the FBI agents who tried to convince Hill and Officer Gus Rose that they actually did not find a Minox camera but a light meter. Armstrong also notes in his book that DeBrueys was one of the agents involved in creating the new and revised evidence inventory list.114 He was also one of the agents on the scene in New Orleans, and later in Dallas, who spoke fluent Spanish and had informants inside the Cuban exile camp. Joe Newbrough, an employee of Banister, told Jim Garrison that he saw both DeBrueys and Regis Kennedy at frequent meetings of the Cuban exile group named the Christian Democratic Movement. They were in the company of David Ferrie.115 According to a CIA report, a fellow denizen of Banister’s office, namely Sergio Arcacha-Smith, was another close contact of DeBrueys.116 Jim Garrison found out that DeBrueys was so involved with Banister, Ferrie, and the Cubans in New Orleans that “instead of operating out of local Bureau headquarters, he had a special office at the Customs House on Canal Street, close to the scene of anti-Castro activity.”117 When Garrison called DeBrueys before the Clay Shaw grand jury, he pleaded executive privilege. On orders sent down by the Justice Department.118

When I interviewed DeBrueys at his home in suburban New Orleans in the summer of 1995, he revealed to me that right after the assassination, he was detailed to the Dallas

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