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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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# SECRET MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. John H. Crimins Coordinator of Cuban Affairs SUBJECT : Erquiaga Arms Company, Industrial, California 1. Attached is a report which was forwarded to this Agency by our Los Angeles office. It is forwarded together with a listing of names of individuals with whom the Erquiaga Arms Company had correspondence as well as a few pieces of miscellaneous correspondence. 2. As stated previously, this Agency has no interest in subject nor any of the individuals mentioned in the attached list. (Signed) ... J. Llores John L. Hart Attachment: a/s DDP/WH/C/CA/EA/ADRohlfing:bh (17 June 650 Distribution: Distribution: Orig & 1 - Addressee 1 - DCWHD/C 1 - WH/C/CA/EA SECRET
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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.