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CIA File on Ray, Manuel

Central Intelligence Agency · 219 pages · text by OCR

This Central Intelligence Agency dossier on Cuban exile leader Manuel Ray Rivero was released in 2023 under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Act. It contains biographical sketches of Ray as Castro's Minister of Public Works and later leader of the MRP and JURE, a 1965 report on his views of anti-Castro tactics, a Spanish report on his 1965 Madrid visit, and 1977 cables answering an FBI request. Those cables note he was declared persona non grata in Jamaica in December 1976.

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“US Navy”8 pages

  • p. 34 …DDP 29 Jan 2 3 C7/WH/COG 4 5 NAVY 6 ACTION DIRECT REPLY PREPARE…
  • p. 40 …Such critters stood in little danger because the Cubanos sometimes accidentally used each other as targets…
  • p. 90 …Aldo SANTAMARIA, Chief of the Cuban Navy, in another possible contact. Again, other than some unsupported…
  • p. 95 …CONVERSA TIONS AMONG EXILES INVOLVED IN THE PLAN, INDICATE THE USE OF EXPLOSIVES ACTIVATED BY RADIO…
  • p. 127 …NO FOREIGN DISSEM/CONTROLLED DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLY C S INTERNAL USE ONLY…
  • p. 128 …NO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLY DATE/INR DIA ARMY/ACSI NAVY AIR JCS SECDEP NSA…
  • p. 186 …EX SPECIAL ASST. US ATTORNEY CURRENTLY LT. CDR. ONI-RESERVE. HAS NAVY SECRET AND OO/C…
  • p. 214 …Ray believes that it would be almost impossible to use guerrilla tactics during the Castro régime…
CROSS REFERENCE TO	DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER	DATE
	HPLN-4013	9 September 1965
	SECRET	201-239298

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 219 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.