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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. 40 …Word was flashed to the FBI, the National Guard, the CIA, Naval Intelligence, and police units…
  • p. 41 …Nonetheless, his own intelligence unit retrieved 15 high-powered weapons, including one machine gun, from the…
  • p. 137 …He wants a press conference in the jail, as one of his conditions for stopping his…
  • p. 203 United Press International Federal agents examine arms seized at the Erquiaga Co. City of Industry, Calif…
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FIVE TWO NINE WA

SECRET TD18 032299
WA CITE LANG 8605
OSS FROM DEVANON
SUBJECT CASE 45486
JUAN ERQUIAGA
ERQUIAGA ARMS CO
ANOTHER AGENT OF PDI LAN HAS ASKED OUR ASSISTANCE IN LOCATING SUBJECT. PDI HAS CIA REQUEST TO INTERVIEW ME. TOLD THAN OUR LAST ENOULEDGE, VIA LAPC, WAS THAT SUBJECT WAS IN PERU. INCIDENTALLY BUREAU'S PARTING QUERY, "CO WE THINK WE'LL EVER GET OUR EQUIPMENT BACK?"
CPM 8605 OSS DEVANON 45486 JUAN ERQUIAGA ERQUIAGA ARMS CO PDI LA
PBI CIA VIA LAPD PERU

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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.