Sergio Arcacha Smith Background
Subject: Arcacha Background
Date: 15 Jul 2000 00:00:00 GMT
Message-ID: <20000715014220.13801.00000089@ng-fw1.aol.com>
January 22, 1923: Sergio Vicente Arcacha Smith born in Havana
April 1945: Comes to US to attend college in Texas
1951: returns to Cuba, joins diplomatic service. First assignment to Bombay, India. Marries Sheila Duarte, a native of Pakistan.
1954: Assistant Manager of Lago Hotel in Caracas, Venezuela
1957-1960: lives in New York City, Miami, Havana.
August 23, 1960: Leaves Cuba for good. Travels to New York City, New Orleans
October 1960: Arrives in Miami
November 1960: Sent by Manuel Antonio de Varona y Loredo, as New Orleans Delegate of Frente Revolucionario Democratico. Secures office in room 207, Balter Building
December 5, 1960: Arcacha and Manuel Eleuterio Quesada Castillo check-in with New Orleans FBI office.
December 22, 1960: NO States Item report that Arcacha is new FRD delegate in New Orleans
December 23, 1960: Arcacha contacts Rafael Goyeneche of International Export Packers about obtaining bazookas and small boat for FRD
February 2, 1961: Arcacha interviewed by FBI SAs Regis L. Kennedy and Ernest C. Wall Jr. about FRD. Arcacha tells them Guy Banister is running name checks on prospective members, and on Cubans at LSU
April 1961: FBI report that Carlos Marcello has offered Arcacha money, in return for gambling concessions in post-invasion Cuba
Late April 1961: Arcacha, who had been lukewarm to FRD volunteer David Ferrie since November, becomes very close to Ferrie, who helps reinvigorate New Orleans FRD.
May 12, 1961: FBI Baton Rouge contacted by VFW about desirability of Arcacha addressing convention on 6/24/61
May 13, 1961: Arcacha flown to Miami in Ferrie's plane by Hugh Ward, to meet Bay of Pigs survivors. Meets Julian Buznedo Castellanos, Carlos Lopez and Endrik Ceijas, invites them to New Orleans
May 15, 1961: Buznedo, Lopez, Ceijas arrive in NO, move in with Arcacha at his home at 112 Egret Street. Ferrie and Buznedo hit it off, Ferrie gives flying time to Buznedo.
June 1961: Ferrie friend Alexander H. Landry Jr. joins Ferrie, Arcacha and others at Arcacha's home to view films of Bay of Pigs invasion
June 14, 1961: Ferrie brings Arcacha to meet Herb Wagner Jr. about a loan. They mention "Operation Mosquito"
June 27, 1961: Ferrie speech to Exchange Club at Sheraton Charles Hotel. Arcacha introduces Ferrie to Jack S. Martin Sr. in coffee shop
July 18, 1961: Arcacha letter to Eastern Air Lines general manager Captain Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, asking leave of absence for Ferrie to help FRD
August 17-18, 1961: Arcacha intervenes on Ferrie's behalf in police matter involving Ferrie and runaway boy, Al Landry. Ferrie arrested, Arcacha begins severing relationship.
Early September 1961: Arcacha apparently involved in pickup of armaments at bunker in Houma, LA
September 18, 1961: Arcacha reports to FBI about being approached by 2 Americans to obtain arms. Possible reference to Houma
September 1961: Arcacha introduces Ferrie to Carlos Crusto Quiroga. Quiroga has heard of morals arrests and dislikes Ferrie.
October 1961: Arcacha introduces Ferrie to Dr. Carlos Jose Bringuier, who has also heard of morals arrests and dislikes Ferrie.
October 9, 1961: Arcacha contacts FBI, tells them FRD has been bsorbed into Cuban Revolutionary Council. He has vacated Balter Building, moving group temporarily to his home.
October 12, 1961: Arcacha put in touch with Sam Mike Newman by Jack Martin, rents Suite 6 at 544 Camp Street for CRC at $50. monthly (but does not pay his rent).
October 30, 1961: Arcacha gives certificate of appreciation to Martin
Late November 1961: Arcacha moves to Parkchester Apartments
November 26, 1961: Arcacha approaches PR man Ronny Caire about funraising for CRC.
December 1961: Arcacha hosts organizational meeting of Crusade to Free Cuba at Hotel Monteleone. One idea is to sell Bay of Pigs commemorative coins
January 20, 1962: Arcacha fired by CRC due to mismanagement, in coin scam and failure to disassociate from Ferrie. Luis Ravel becomes new CRC delegate
February 9, 1962: Ravel moves CRC out of 544 Camp Street, to his home, owing 5 months rent ($250.)
February 12, 1962: Arcacha hired by Ronnie Caire as PR man.
April 2, 1962: Arcacha applies for political asylum in US, granted April 11
July-August 1962: Arcacha travels to Mexico. Uses false name, irritating Ronny Caire
September 18, 1962: Caire fires Arcacha
September 28, 1962: Arcacha borrows car from Joseph L. Milla, fails to return it
October 20, 1962: Arcacha moves to Miami
December 20, 1962: Arcacha settles in Tampa
January 1, 1963: Arcacha's wife loses baby shortly after birth
January 14, 1963: Arcacha moves to Houston. Calls Milla, tells him car is in Miami
March 1, 1963: Arcacha begins employment at Calvin Clausel marketing company in Houston, selling air conditioners
May 1963: Because Clausel will not meet salary, Arcacha becomes Assistant Manager of America Hotel in Houston
August 1963: Clausel lures Arcacha back with salary.
Late 1963: Arcacha begins talks with Climatic Air of Dallas.
June 10, 1964: Arcacha moves to Dallas to take job with Climatic Air
Just a few chronological entries relating to Arcacha, for background. I think I got most of them.
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David Blackburst
[From a later posting:]
A bit of background on Arcacha, excerpted from my forthcoming book:
(Tony) Varona's choice for the position of New Orleans Delegate of the FRD [Frente Revolucionario Democrático] was a dapper man named Sergio Vicente Arcacha Smith. Born in Havana on January 22, 1923, Arcacha was already familiar with the United States and spoke English well. In April 1945 he came to the U.S. to attend college in Texas. In 1951 he returned to Cuba and secured employment with the Cuban diplomatic service. His first assignment took him to Bombay, India, where he met and married Sheila Duarte, a native of Pakistan. By 1954, Arcacha had left the diplomatic service and was working as the assistant manager of the Lago Hotel in Caracas, Venezuela. Over the next few years he lived in New York City and Miami, Florida before returning to Cuba. On August 23, 1960 Arcacha left Cuba for good, traveling first to New York, stopping in New Orleans, and arriving in Miami in late October. It was on November 11 that, in Sheila's words, Varona "sent Sergio to New Orleans as a Delegate of the Front without a penny."
Arcacha spent much of December 1960 getting set-up as the FRD delegate in New Orleans. Arcacha established his communications with the FRD Executive Committee through a post office box in Coral Gables, Florida, not far from the CIA's JMWAVE station. Deciding that it would be wise to keep the FBI in the loop about his activities, Arcacha and his assistant Manuel Eleuterio Quesada Castillo made contact with Special Agent Warren C. DeBrueys through another exile, Rolando Zubizarreta, and visited the New Orleans FBI office on December 5.
Arcacha announced his presence on December 6, 1960 as the New Orleans Delegate of the Frente Revolucionario Democratico. Arcacha stated the objective of the FRD as the overthrow of Castro, but added that the purpose of the New Orleans branch was simply to inform the public about “exactly what is happening in Cuba”. On December 21, the new FRD office was opened in Room 207 of the second floor of the Balter Building at 403 Camp Street, apparently acquired rent-free. Joining Arcacha in the office were Quesada and Francisco J. Uriate.
After hearing Arcacha's tame description of the planned activities of the FRD, FBI Special Agent DeBrueys was startled to learn that he contacted International Export Packers in New Orleans on December 23 and indicated that "the FRD was interested in obtaining bazookas and a small boat." Arcacha also felt that the FRD would need the assistance of an experienced public relations firm to present the right image for the organization, and he chose Martin L. McAuliffe Jr. for the task. One of McAuliffe's first accomplishments was to start a regular series of FRD press releases to the New Orleans media.
To help mobilize community support for the Frente Revolucionario Democratico, PR man McAuliffe arranged for Arcacha to visit with and address a series of civic groups. On January 5, 1961, the Cuban delegate spoke before the New Orleans Junior Chamber of Commerce, declaring that “Cubans will launch an invasion sometime in 1961 to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro…Cuban citizens are being recruited by the Frente in this country and sent elsewhere to train for the invasion.” Arcacha estimated that complete victory would come after six months of fighting. Joining him in the presentation were Oscar Higgenbotham, former General Manager of the Central Espana Sugar Mills in central Cuba, and Carlos Marquez Diaz, former Cuban consul who was “removed when Castro came to power.” Marquez said that Castro has destroyed everything that represents decency and honesty in Cuba.”
From: blackburst@aol.com (Blackburst)
Subject: Re: Arcacha Smith and the FRD
Date: 16 Aug 1998 00:00:00 GMT
Message-ID: <1998081602560800.WAA20821@ladder01.news.aol.com>
John McAdams wrote:
>Smith shows up in the Rose Cheramie tale, since the keeper of a
>roadside joint IDed him (years later) as one of the men travelling
>with Cheramie.
>
>Is there anything on the record to show were he was the two days
>before the assassination? Could he have been riding around rural
>Louisiana with Cheramie?
Since the allegation by a dead bartender (via Francis Fruge) about Arcacha did not come to light until 1979, there is no currently available record as to his whereabouts. But Arcacha's employer Calvin Clausel insisted that Arcacha was living in Houston, was regularly at work, and was with Clausel on the day of the assassination. A source in HSCA says that Arcacha's unreleased statement to the committee (which I have not read) contains a denial of the story.
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Dave
From: blackburst@aol.com (Blackburst)
Subject: Re: Whatever happened to David Lewis?
Date: 16 Jun 1998 00:00:00 GMT
Message-ID: <1998061605525900.BAA28563@ladder01.news.aol.com>
Lisa Pease wrote:
>David Phillips was working with Guy Banister
>and Sergio Arcacha Smith,
It is true that David Phillips was the Headquarters Chief of Propaganda for the Frente Revolucionario Democratico, the CIA-created political action group for the Cuban invasion. It is true that Sergio Arcacha Smith was the New Orleans delegate of the FRD and it's successor, the Cuban Revolutionary Council in 1960-61, and that Banister assisted Arcacha at that time. Whether Phillips was acquainted with Arcacha and Banister or was "working with" them is not established.
>Sergio Arcacha Smith, the man who held the office at 544 Camp St.
>before Oswald did.
Arcacha held the office until January 1962, 18 months before Oswald used the address.
>Sergio Arcacha Smith and Emilio Santana
>were identified to Fruge as the two men at the bar with Rose Cheramie
>just before she was killed.
The bar owner, Mac Manual (since deceased) identified the men from photos about 3 1/2 years later. Arcacha denies being the man in question.
>Phillips was seen with Oswald,
If you accept an apparently off-the-record identification of Maurice Bishop as Phillips by Antonio Veciana.
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Dave
From: blackburst@aol.com (Blackburst)
Subject: Re: Sergio Arcacha Smith
Date: 05 Dec 1997 00:00:00 GMT
Message-ID: <19971205052301.AAA17764@ladder02.news.aol.com>
>HSCA Statement of Mrs. Arcacha,
>Did she produce any records to document that?
No, it was a statement. It is supported by documents from Ronny Caire and Calvin Clausel, two of his employers.
> I would hesitate to accept
>the word of the wife of a man who may have been involved in something so
>serious as an assassination.
I don't see any involvement in the assassination, so I have no reason to doubt her word, or Caire's, or Clausel's.
>How much work did Ferrie do for Marcello?
HSCA had several letters from Ferrie in Guatemala to one of Marcello's lawyers that, on the face of it, seem to document a lot of activity in connection with Marcello's false Guatemalan birth certificate.
>Davis, however, has reason to lie about this, to distance himself and his
>activities from that group.
What reason?
>If you continue in this manner, .... :)
I calls them as I sees them. There are lots of questions about certain of the New Orleans characters, as you and I know, but the evidence with respect to Sr. Arcacha is slim indeed.
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David
From: blackburst@aol.com (Blackburst)
Subject: Re: Sergio Arcacha Smith
Date: 24 Nov 1997 00:00:00 GMT
Message-ID: <19971124052101.AAA17580@ladder02.news.aol.com>
> Re: Sergio Arcacha Smith
>He was, however, in Dallas on Nov 22
He was not in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
Document from the files of Orleans Parish District Attorney Jim Garrison:
Letter from Calvin Clausel, "To Whom It May Concern"
"Sergio Arcacha Smith was employed by my company from March 1, 1963 to January, 1964...
"On the day, at the hour and moment President Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Mr. Arcacha was with me in my office at Suite #107,3100 Audley Street, Houston, Texas. This fact can also be corroborated by Mrs. Art Magee, formerly Mrs. Rima Bredelhoeft, who at that time was my secretary."
If Clausel and Magee were being truthful, your information about Arcacha being in Dallas at the time of the assassination appears to be incorrect.
Thanks.
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Dave
From: blackburst@aol.com (Blackburst)
Subject: Re: By Popular Demand: OT Mystery Theater Part I
Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMT
Message-ID: <19980125054700.AAA00987@ladder02.news.aol.com>
Young Ms. Pease wrote:
>I could have predicted that, given that you don't think Arcacha had
>anything to do with the assassination, despite his presence at a bar with
>Rose Cheramie the night she was killed.
>
>Or was that information not in your otherwise prolific files?
Gee, my otherwise prolific files relate that Lt. Francis Fruge, in attempting
to find corroboration for Rose Cheramie's story, interviewed Silver Slipper bar
owner Mac Manual during the Garrison investigation, and that Manual picked
Arcacha's picture as one of the men who accompanied Cheramie to the bar on
11/20/63. The HSCA report notes that "corroboration of Fruge's identification
of Cheramie's travelling companion as Sergio Arcacha Smith and further
substantiation of Cheramie's allegations remained elusive." On the other hand,
as I have noted, Arcacha denies any connection with Cheramie. He also denies
being in Dallas or New Orleans at the time of the assassination, and statements
of his ex-wife and employer appear to corroborate this.
However, it is interesting to hear that you have unearthed evidence that Arcacha absolutely, positively WAS with Cheramie that night, and WAS involved in the assassination. Will you share it with us?
Thanks:)
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David
From: blackburst@aol.com (Blackburst)
Subject: Re: Response to Blackburst
Date: 12 Nov 1998 00:00:00 GMT
Message-ID: <19981111230914.24964.00000552@ng71.aol.com>
[…]
[Dave Reitzes wrote:]
>Hinckle & Turner's statement is consistent with my understanding
>that Sergio Arcacha Smith remained at 531 Lafayette/544 Camp for some
>months after the date you give, which is indeed the official date he is
>alleged to have moved, but not, as I understand it, the actual date.
My research suggests pretty unambiguously the Arcacha was kicked out of the CRC on 1/20/62, in a move spearheaded by Arnesto Rodriguez Sr. Luis Ravel's statements make clear that Arcacha had left the group for good at that time, and that Ravel then moved the CRC out of 544 Camp and into his home on 2/9/62. Sam Mike Newman did state that an unidentified man continued to use the office "for a short time", but it was not Arcacha, whom he knew well.
Public Relations man Ronny Caire stated that Arcacha came to him looking for a job, and he hired him on 2/12/62. He was terminated by Caire on 9/18/62 for traveling to Mexico in July under a false name. Arcacha was next involved in failing to return a borrowed car in October 1962. On 10/20/62, he moved to Miami, then Tampa. On 1/14/62, Arcacha moved to Houston, where he became an air-conditioner salesman for Calvin Clausel.
[...]
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David
From: blackburst@aol.com (Blackburst)
Subject: Re: What about Banister and the CIA?
Date: 10 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT
Message-ID: <19990110011155.01056.00008815@ng-ce1.aol.com>
Dave Reitzes wrote:
>Does your
>research indicate that this was only a fluke, and that Banister wasn't
>really a gunrunner?
I can't say if he was or wasn't, but ALL the reports I have seen on Banister and gunrunning seem to refer to the same incident, the September 1961 Houma heist, shortly after which the Schlumberger boxes were spotted in his office by an associate.
>does the CIA actually figure into the Houma heist,
> or is that just a Gordon Novel fairy tale?
Novel and Ehlinger's initial statements on the matter indicate that it was a fluke, that the two were drag racing near Houma and came across the arms, Ehlinger told of the find to his cousin, Ed Butler, who informed Arcacha about it. Incidentally, I believe Arcacha made a CYA report about this to the FBI shortly after it happened. It was only after he was subpoenaed by Garrison that he began intimating that it had CIA support. Another fact: In the earlier statements, Novel and Ehlinger said they used bolt cutters to enter the bunker. Later, Novel claimed they had a key.
>What about Arcacha Smith's
>involvement?
>
Yes, the evidence supports the idea that Arcacha was present on the heist.
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David
From: blackburst@aol.com (Blackburst)
Subject: Re: Sergio Arcacha Smith
Date: 22 Nov 1997 00:00:00 GMT
Message-ID: <19971122212200.QAA04960@ladder01.news.aol.com>
>lpease@netcom.com (Lisa Pease)
>Quoting from Flammonde's excellent book:
[...]
Paris Flammonde's "The Kennedy Conspiracy" was an excellent source of information when it came out in 1969. Like Bill Turner's articles, it presented much of the meat of Garrison's investigation for the first time,. Since that time much new information has become public, including many of Garrison's files. It is reasonable to say that Flammonde was pretty close in many regards, but that his book can now be seen to have a few mistakes here and there. It is essential material and I recommend it highly, but one should not cite it as definitive without some other source.
> Sam Newman
>had, however, rented a
>second-floor office to the Cuban Revolutionary Council.
>The
>Cuban Revolutionary Council was created by the CIA on March 18, 1961,
Newman rented to the CRC for 5 months, from October 1961-February 1962.
>Also housed at 544 Camp Street were two other militantly right-wing
>anti-Castro organizations, the Crusade to Free Cuba and the Cuban
>Democratic Revolutionary Front, founded by Sergio Arcacha Smith.
Arcacha did not found the Frente Revolucionario Democratico. He was appointed it's New Orleans delegate by Tony Varona. He served in that position from November 1960 to October 1961, when the FRD was absorbed by the Cuban Revolutionary Council. Arcacha was the CRC delegate from October 1961-January 1962. The fundraising arms of the FRD were Friends of Democratic Cuba, only in existence for about 2 months, from January-February 1961, and the Crusade to Free Cuba, in existence for 3 months, from November 1961-January 1962. Arcacha communicated with Varona through a Coral Gables P.O. Box.
>The FRD and CRC were under the direct supervision of E. Howard Hunt
Hunt supervised the FRD Executive Committee, including Varona, from mid-1960 to March 1961. He quit that position when the CRC was formed and therefore never supervised the CRC.
>Shortly before the Kennedy assassination Arcacha
>moved to Houston
Arcacha moved from New Orleans to Miami in October 1962, and from Miami to Houston in January 1963, and took a job as an air conditioning salesman in March 1963.
> and the day after it [the assassination]
> he took up residence in Dallas,
Not true. He moved to Dallas in June 1964.
>A New Orleans States-Item story said that Arcacha "was training men here
>to particpate in an invasion of Cuba" in 1961.
Arcacha's principal activities with the FRD and CRC were to recruit men for the invasion brigade, to raise money for their support and the support of their families, and apparently some obtaining of arms. Arcacha does not seem to have been involved in training. The CIA, however, was conducting training from February to April 1961 at the Belle Chasse Naval Station, a few miles south of the city.
> Ferrie was in the
>same work."
Arcacha didn't accept Ferrie in active role from the time he joined, in November 1960, to the Bay of Pigs in April 1961. After the BoP, Ferrie was very active, but only until he was ostracized after his arrests. By the end of 1961, he was relatively inactive, so his active FRD period was less than 9 months.
>Ferrie,
>who worked as an investigator for Bannister's [sic] private detective agency.
>According to Garrison, "Ferrie was a paid investigator for Bannister,
Ferrie did some work for Banister in exchange for Banister's investigative services, but Ferrie was never on the payroll. The two men did become close friends, however.
>Ferrie spent
>a good deal of time at 544 Camp Street and he made a series of mysterious
>long-distance phone calls to Central America. We have a record of those
>calls."
Calls apparently made by Ferrie to Latin America in 1963 were not made from Banister's office but from the office of Ferrie's actual employer, G. Wray Gill, and seem to have been related to Marcello's false Guatemalan birth certificate.
>Some of the war material taken from the Houma
>bunker on August 1, 1961, showed up almost three years to the day later
>when the FBI raided the Cuban exile arms cache at the mcLaney cottage in
>Lacombe, Louisiana.)
Not true, to the best of my knowledge. Also, Garrison was wrong about the date of the burglary, which was a few weeks later. The evidence of a connection between Banister-Ferrie to the 1963 MDC camp is not at all definitive. Arcacha, by the way, was in Texas at this time.
I'm not sure I understand the significance of this post. The bottom line is that there is no remotely convincing connection between Arcacha and the assassination. Yes, Oswald used the 544 Camp Street address, but Arcacha had left the building some 20 months earlier, and left New Orleans about 8 months earlier.
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David
From: blackburst@aol.com (Blackburst)
Subject: Re: Sergio Arcacha Smith
Date: 29 Nov 1997 00:00:00 GMT
Message-ID: <19971129060001.BAA10919@ladder01.news.aol.com>
>lpease@netcom.com
>What are your
>sources? Please source this information so I can follow it up.
Since I started researching the New Orleans angle of the case many years ago, I have kept index cards of files on all persons or topics of interest. My comments on Arcacha were largely based on my file. I'll try to tick off as many sources as I can. If you need specific info on a particular point, I'll be glad to provide it.
> Newman rented to the CRC for 5 months, from October 1961-February 1962.
CE 1414
>Arcacha did not found the Frente Revolucionario Democratico. He was appointed
>: it's New Orleans delegate by Tony Varona. He served in that position from
>: November 1960 to October 1961,
HSCA X 61
>The fundraising arms of the FRD were Friends of Democratic Cuba, only in
>: existence for about 2 months, from January-February 1961, and the Crusade
>to
>: Free Cuba, in existence for 3 months, from November 1961-January 1962.
Statement of Martin L. McAuliffe, 5/9/67
Interview of Ronny Caire, 1/23/67
> Hunt supervised the FRD Executive Committee, including Varona, from mid-1960
>to
>: March 1961. He quit that position when the CRC was formed and therefore
>never
>: supervised the CRC.
Hunt, "Give Us This Day"
> >Shortly before the Kennedy assassination Arcacha
>: >moved to Houston
>
>: Arcacha moved from New Orleans to Miami in October 1962, and from Miami to
>: Houston in January 1963, and took a job as an air conditioning salesman in
>: March 1963.
HSCA Statement of Mrs. Arcacha, undated
>: Not true. He moved to Dallas in June 1964.
Same
> Arcacha's principal activities with the FRD and CRC were to recruit men for
>the
>: invasion brigade, to raise money for their support and the support of their
>: families, and apparently some
>: obtaining of arms. Arcacha does not seem to have been involved in training.
From various documents. I have not run across any such evidence of Arcacha being involved in training during his time in New Orleans, November 1960-October 1962.
>CIA, however, was conducting training from February to April 1961 at the Belle
>: Chasse Naval Station, a few miles south of the city.
CIA Memo 10/26/67, David A. Phillips to Nancy Grats
> Arcacha didn't accept Ferrie in active role from the time he joined, in
>: November 1960, to the Bay of Pigs in April 1961. After the BoP, Ferrie was
very
>: active,
Interview of Martin L. McAuliffe, 5/9/67, and various accounts of Ferrie to FBI and others.
> By the end of 1961,
>: he was relatively inactive,
Garrison, "A Heritage of Stone" I believe.
>Ferrie did some work for Banister in exchange for Banister's investigative
>: services, but Ferrie was never on the payroll. The two men did become close
>: friends, however.
HSCA X 105 ff
Interview of Delphine Roberts, 1/19/67
>Calls apparently made by Ferrie to Latin America in 1963 were not made from
>: Banister's office but from the office of Ferrie's actual employer, G. Wray
>: Gill
Gill phone records from Garrison files, 1/4/67
>seem to have been related to Marcello's false Guatemalan birth
>: certificate.
Admittedly a deduction. Most of the calls were to Guatemalan numbers at a time when Ferrie was assigned to the Marcello case.
> The evidence of a connection
>: between Banister-Ferrie to the 1963 MDC camp is not at all definitive.
There are conflicting accounts on this. Ricardo Davis, who organized the camp, and all others known to have been involved in it say that Banister, Arcacha and Ferrie had no connection to the camp.
>Arcacha,
>: by the way, was in Texas at this time.
Letter, Calvin Clausel "To Whom It May Concern", 6/8/67
I still don't see any connection between Arcacha and the assassination.
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David