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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.
“Madrid”16 pages
CLASSIFIED MESSAGE TOTAL COPY REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED 49, SECRET PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED 1 5 2 6 3 7 4 8 FROM JIM WAVE ADVANCE COPY UNIT TIME BY ACTION WHZ ISSUED SLOTTED TUED (154C44)x FOLL WAVE TRACES ERQUIAGA: AIR CORSE A. BORN LIMA 20 MAR 22. ASSOCIATED WITH LOS ANGELES 26 JULY CLUB. (DBF 11596 DTD 15 OCT 59.) B. INVOLVED SENDING ARMS CUBA FOR ANTI-BATISTA REVOLUTION THRU MIGUEL ANGEL ORELLANA RODRIGUEZ DURING PERIOD SEPT-NOV 56. (UFCA Y 5775 DID 24 SEPT 65) C. LOAD OF WEAPONS FROM ERQUIAGA ARMS CO, 15036 PROCTOR AVE, CITY OF INDUSTRY, CALIFORNIA LOCATED EARLY 65 BY ODENVY AT APEX RIFLE CO, 7628 SAN FERNANDO ROAD, SUN VALLEY. THESE WEAPONS WERE ALLEGEDLY INTENDED FOR MANOLO RAY. (CSCI 316/00924-65 DTD 26 Y CFN * DUEBONS REQUESTED TRAKES ON JUAN PERUIGA A12CGRI MICROFILMED JUN 4 1965 DOC. MICRO. SER. 201-239295 9914965
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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.