Sergio Arcacha Smith
Sergio Arcacha Smith was a Cuban exile and, in the early 1960s, was head of the New Orleans chapter of the CIA-backed Cuban Revolutionary Council, an anti-Castro group. The forerunner of the Cuban Revolutionary Council was a group called the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front, known in Spanish as the Frente Revolucionario Democrático (FRD). Arcacha Smith had served under Castro's predecessor, the military ruler, Fulgencio Batista. Garrison believed that Arcacha Smith could link David Ferrie, Clay Shaw and Oswald together at the Trial of Clay Shaw in New Orleans, Louisiana. Texas Governor John Connally refused to extradite Arcacha Smith to Louisiana for the trial. Jim Garrison continued his prosecution without Arcacha Smith's testimony.
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