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I m sending you this information in case it may be of help to you on the Clay Shaw trial.
I met Mr. Hardy at a New Year s Eve party. During our conversation he told me was a private contractor and remodeled homes. He moved here from New Orleans, and told me he remodeled Clay Shaw s home there. He said at the time he saw many Cuban type men visit there and that one man in particular (the name I have forgotten), who denied to you that he knew Shaw, but stood outside the Shaw residence handing out papers and could not but help know Shaw.
States-Item of December 1, 1961).
For the last three months in 1961, he had an office at 544 Camp Street in New Orleans. Here is an excerpt from the statement of Sam Newman (who owned the building) to Garrison on January 18, 1967:
Arcacha Smith left New Orleans in 1962 after being suspected of stealing money from the organization. He moved to Miami, and then Houston (where he sold advertising), and ultimately settled in Dallas, where he was selling air conditioners.
He was not in Dallas then JFK was assassinated.
Here is a letter form his employer in Dallas.
However, Arcacha Smith was a person of interest to Jim Garrison who suspected a connection with Lee Harvey Oswald. After all, a few of Oswald s pro-Castro pamphlets (from the Fair Play for Cuba Committee) handed out in August 1963, bore the same address, 544 Camp Street, that Arcacha s organization had back in 1962. And Garrison had two witnesses, Jack Martin and David Lewis, who had seen Oswald and Arcacha together in 1963