Documents / FOIA release
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.
“FBI file”5 pages
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
TO: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION. Y
ATTENTION: INTD-CI/ Y
CIR-316/02752-77 Y
SUBJECT: MANUEL ANTONIO RAY RIVERA, AKA MANOLO RAYS ESPIONAGE - CUBA Y
1. REFER TO FBI TELETYPE DATED 22 JUNE 1977, SUBJECT AS ABOVE. $ \varphi $
2. THIS AGENCY HAS REVIEWED THE RAY FILE BUT WE HAVE NO REPORTING BEYOND JULY 1974, INCLUDING TRAVEL. WE HAVE QUERIED OUR REPRESENTATIVES IN KINGSTON AND CARACAS CONCERNING YOUR REQUEST WITH THE FOLLOWING RESULTS.
3. OUR REPRESENTATIVE IN KINGSTON STATED THAT ACCORDING TO INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO HIM, RAY HAD BEEN IN BUSINESS IN MONTEGO BAY UNTIL DECEMBER 1976 AND THAT HE FREQUENTLY TRAVELLED IN AND OUT OF THE COUNTRY {"SHUTTLING" WAS TERM USED}. IN DECEMBER 1976 RAY WAS DECLARED "PERSONA NON GRATA" ON INSTRUCTIONS FROM PRIME MINISTER MANLEY, WHO BASED HIS DECISION ON VAGUE ALLEGATIONS THAT RAY HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN CUBAN EXILE ACTIVITIES. THERE ARE NO TRACES ON AMALIA ANGELINA ZABALA MAS. Not linked to a story yet.
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 219 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.