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Is this "alleged" publication noteworthy?

I tried to scrounge up some substantial or even trivial coverage in reliable sources for this article, but I think I've struck out. Although there are a lot of conspiracy sources that mention the newsletter, all of them seem to be regurgitating one or two sentences that appear to have origins in one of the following three:

1) The earliest mention of this alleged newsletter appears in an article by Richard Popkin in the September 14, 1967 issue of The New York Review. On page 28, Popkin wrote only one sentence that had anything to do with it: "Bannister put out a far-right-wing newsletter, the Louisiana Intelligence Digest (which Ferrie read), attacking desegregation as a Communist conspiracy." (Note that the previous year Popkin published "The Second Oswald: The Case for a Conspiracy Theory"... the idea that Lee Harvey Oswald was set up by an impersonator.)

2) A few months later, former FBI agent turned conspiracy theorist William Turner wrote a similar blurb in the January 1968 issue of Ramparts. Page 47: "[Banister] was regarded as one of the city's most vocal anti-Castroites, and published the racist Louisiana Intelligence Digest, which depicted integration as a communist conspiracy."

3) And in his 1971 book Power on the Right, Turner wrote on page 95: "Banister published the racist Louisiana Intelligence Digest which depicted integration as part of the Communist conspiracy, and collected what were reputed to be the largest files of 'anti-communist intelligence in the state. Data from the files were regularly delivered to the local FBI office."

There are currently four sources for this article, all push JFK conspiracy theories, and all offer only simple blurbs that have their origins in one of the three sources above:

1) Marrs is unsourced and states only that Banister "was the publisher of a racist publication titled Louisiana Intelligence Digest".

2) The Wattpad article is copied from the Guy Banister article.

3) Robert D. Morrow says in his bizarre account that he was one of the assassins - ! - and was told by Tracy Barnes that "Banister publishes an anti-communist rag called The Louisiana Intelligence Digest."

4) With a citation to Turner's book, Peter Dale Scott wrote: "From his office in the 544 Camp Street building, Banister published the racist Louisiana Intelligence Digest, 'which depicted integration as part of the Communist conspiracy.'"

Interestingly, despite all the manpower the House Select Committee on Assassinations put into investigating Jim Garrison's claims of Oswald, Banister, Ferrie, etc., there is not one blurb about the Louisiana Intelligence Digest in its thousands upon thousands of documents, memos, and reports. Should this article stay, go, or be merged... and with what reliable sourcing? - Location (talk) 05:13, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Although the title is not mentioned, I did find one more blurb that was published shortly after Popkin's article. On page 161 of the October 1967 issue of Playboy, Jim Garrison said: "Bannister also published a newsletter for his clients that included virulent anti-Kennedy polemics." - Location (talk) 15:57, 16 September 2022 (UTC)