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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.

  • p. 39 …anti-Jewish guerrilla gang which has its headquarters in Birmingham, Alc. It requires its members to…
  • p. 41 …unsolicited long distance telephone calls from IHS headquarters in Washington and California demanding to know "why…
  • p. 70 …During a brief TDY stopover at Headquarters on 23 August 1966, QUSPORT-1 said he had…
  • p. 174 …Other Headquarters traces were summarized in WAVE 1598 of 7 May 1969.
  • p. 202 …Manuel RAY Rivero called from Puerto Rico to the WH/C office at Headquarters on the…
  • p. 203 …Lynch said the group was closely associated" with the Ku Klux Klan and had headquarters in…
  • p. 216 …FROM Chief of Station, Madrid ONLY QUALIFIED HEADQUARTERS DESA CAN JUDGE INDEXING SUBJECT KEYWAY/PERIOR/Subject…
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TRACES ON RAY OR AMALIA ANGELINA ZABALA MAS. CUBAN RESIDENT WHO CONTACTED RAY IN PUERTO RICO. RAY'S ADDRESS IN VENEZUELA "PUBLICIDAD

SIBONEY, EDIF. LEX, 5 PISO, AVE LIBERTADOR, EL ROSAL" , IS A LEGITIMATE ADDRESS. THERE ARE ALSO BRANCH OFFICES IN PUERTO RICO AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 4 5. YOU WILL BE ADVISED OF ANY FURTHER INFORMATION MADE AVAIL-

ABLE TO THIS AGENCY. 4

6. FYI: ABOVE INFO OBTAINED PURSUANT TO CIA'S RESPONSIBILITY FOR CONDUCT OF FOREIGN COUNTERINTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE U.S. 4

7. SECRET/WARNING NOTICE--SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED/NO FOREIGN DISSEM. CLASSIFIED BY 012034. EXEMPT FROM GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION SCHEDULE OF E.O. 11652 EXEMPTION CATEGORY 58{2}. IMPOSSIBLE TO DETERMINE DATE OF AUTOMATIC DECLASSIFICATION.

CABLE SEC: PLS PROVIDE COPIES TO IP/AN FOR FILING 201-239298, 201- 802841.

LA COMMENT: REF REQUESTED INFO ON RAY'S TRAVEL AND CONTACTS AND, IF POSSIBLE, DETERMINE STATUS OF HIS VISA WORK PERMIT.

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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.