Delphine
Roberts
worked for Guy
Banister and
later became his mistress. Roberts told Anthony
Summers that
during the summer of 1963 Lee
Harvey Oswald worked
for Banister. She said she was in the office when Banister suggested
that Oswald should establish a local Fair Play for Cuba Committee.
This story was supported by her daughter who met Oswald during this
period.
Open
Debate on the Kennedy Assassination
(1)
Anthony Summers, The
Kennedy Conspiracy (1980)
According
to Delphine Roberts, Lee Oswald walked into her office sometime
in 1963 and asked to fill in the forms for accreditation as
one of Banister's "agents." Mrs. Roberts told me,
"Oswald introduced himself by name and said he was seeking
an application form. I did not think that was really why he
was there. During the course of the conversation I gained the
impression that he and Guy Banister already knew each other.
After Oswald filled out the application form Guy Banister called
him into the office. The door was closed, and a lengthy conversation
took place. Then the young man left. I presumed then, and now
am certain, that the reason for Oswald being there was that
he was required to act undercover."
Mrs. Roberts
said she was sure that whatever the nature of Banister's "interest"
in Oswald, it concerned anti-Castro schemes, plans which she feels
certain had the support and encouragement of government intelligence
agencies. As she put it, "Mr. Banister had been a special agent
for the FBI and was still working for them. There were quite a number
of connections which he kept with the FBI and the CIA, too. I know
he and the FBI traded information due to his former association...."
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