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CIA File on Ray, Manuel

Central Intelligence Agency · 219 pages · text by GLM-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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DE 0647/15 19/23212

R 19223AZ ZEA

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FOUR NINE SEVEN VA

SECRET TDTG 192290Z

VA CITE LANG 8978

TRAVIS FROM DEVANON

SUBJ: CASE 43486 - ERQUIAGA ARMS COMPANY

INS CONTACT ADVISES ACTION REPORTED IN LANG 8564 WAS SPONTANEOUS REACTION OF SOME ONE IN INS CENTRAL OFFICES WHO READ THE PAPER. INQUIRY WAS BUCKED TO REGION, THENCE TO DISTRICT. DISTRICT HAS SENT LEAD TO SAM JUAN P.R. TO SEE IF THEY CAN FIND HAY THERE.

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CPN 8978 TRAVIS DEVANON 45486 ERQUIAGA ARMS COMPANY INS LANG 8564 INS SAN JUAN P R RAY

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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.