Transcript of Interview with 
                         [EXCERPT]
                     Judge Jim Garrison
                     by Patricia Toole
   
                     February 18, 1986 
                   New Orleans, Louisiana
   
   JUDGE GARRISON:
   
     When I saw "Russian examination" and then found out
   that this was shortly before he received an honorable
   discharge (not a dishonorable discharge) and within a few
   weeks he's on his way to Russia, this sounds more like
   intelligence to me. The next morning I noticed that he had
   handed out leaflets on which he had printed with a little
   rubber stamp, "544 Camp." I went down to 544 Camp Street
   and a little old Union building of false granite and I said
   well this is the side entrance to the offices of Guy
   Banister. He used to be in charge of the Chicago Office of
   the F.B.I., was in Naval Intelligence during the war. He
   was a fanatic anti-communist. I said Oswald can't be a
   genuine communist if this is where he was operating from.
   So then I thought that if he was operating from out of here
   then Banister had some kind of anti-communist government
   operation, they would have removed that address
   immediately. So I checked that and sure enough the second
   time he was giving something out, the address had been
   removed. I started off lucky in the sense that from the
   outset I was on, considering the point of a compass has 360
   degrees, I happened to be probably the one critic who
   started off on exactly the right compass. In other words,
   all the other deceptions, the "golden apples", as a friend
   of mine, one critic, called them, to catch your attention 
   -- the mob, Castro, and the oil millionaires of.......
   
   
   MS. TOOLE:

     I have one book, called THE GARRISON CASE. I'm not
   sure who wrote it. 
   
   JUDGE GARRISON: 
   
     Milton Brenner. It was a surprising venomous book...I
   had heard about it. I made him an Assistant District
   Attorney. He was an Assistant D.A. About a year out of my
   office and he seemed to feel that it was inconceivable that
   the federal government would do anything like that so he
   wrote a book attacking me which I never bothered to read. 
   
   MS. TOOLE 
   
     So that one is not favorable towards you?
   
   JUDGE GARRISON:
   
     No. Neither is PLOT OR POLITICS by Rosemary James and
   if there was some political advantage in fighting the
   government. I could have been governor if I had wanted when
   McKeithen ran. My recognition was exactly the same
   percentage as his in the State. But I liked being D.A. so I
   chose to support McKeithen. And not to run. But she somehow
   got the idea that I was in this investigation for political
   advancement. Frankly, I  assumed I'd be killed because I
   knew I was right. And I had everything to lose and nothing
   to gain. Here's a book saying politics. The other books
   such as Anthony Summers which I despise so much but I keep
   it because they're raisins in it. When the C.I.A. writes a
   book, basically to say the mob did it, they give things
   away, material that you don't already have sometimes. They
   put raisins in it to make you eat the cookie. So I find it
   very useful for reference. What makes me so mad is that
   it's full of lies......And there's a new C.I.A. book,
   REASONABLE DOUBT and Henry Hurt has about thirty pages
   working me over and attacking....I don't know why anyone
   would be attacked at all for being the only public official
   in the country who tried to do something about it to begin
   with. But that doesn't matter. Their point is
   discreditation. They wanted to get the message across --
   don't believe what Garrison's been telling you about the
   C.I.A. We're telling you he's wrong. He's involved with the
   mob. And this one also by Summers said that I was involved
   with the mob and I had a secret meeting with Joe Tosselli
   at a Las Vegas hotel that he had. Can you imagine me
   meeting with Joe Rosselli - your remember the guy that was
   killed with a bullet in his stomach and his legs cut off -
   and put in a barrel and dropped in the Bay off Florida?