Crusade to Free Cuba Committee

Crusade to Free Cuba Committee
FormationDecember 1961
FounderSergio Arcacha Smith
TypePolitical advocacy group
PurposeAnti-Castro activism; supporting Cuban exile efforts
HeadquartersUnited States
Region served
Cuban exile community, United States
Key people
Sergio Arcacha Smith
AffiliationsCuban Revolutionary Council (formerly Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front)

The Crusade to Free Cuba Committee was founded in December 1961 by anti-Castro Cuban exile Sergio Arcacha Smith to raise funds and support for the CIA-backed Cuban Revolutionary Council, a group formerly known as the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Jerry P. Shinley Archive: Sergio Arcacha Smith and the FRD (Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front): JFK assassination investigation: Jim Garrison New Orleans investigation of the John F. Kennedy assassination
  2. ^ Cuban Revolutionary Council: A Concise History, House Select Committee on Assassinations - Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 4, p. 58.
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