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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. 186 …2 65 GENE PRICE JUAN ARZCORBE ERQUIAGA LOVELL V KNUDSON 12228 10520 ERQUIAGA KNUDSON DONALD KELLNER…

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R3 0212

DE 8647/09 13/1945Z

R 131935Z ZEA

BT

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FOUR NINE ONE WA

SEGRET TDTG 1319352

WA CITE LANG 8564

SUPPORT (STUNTZ) FROM DEVANON

SUBJ: CASE 45486 ERQUIAGA ARMS CO

ASSUME NO ONE AT HQ CARES MUCH, BUT WE UNDERSTAND INS IS TRYING TO FIND MANOLO RAY. OBJECTIVE - QUERY RE GUNS AND POSSIBILITY OF ERQUIAGA'S REPATRIATION.

SECRET

CFN 8564 STUNTZ DEVANON 45486 ERQUIAGA ARMS INS MANOLO RAY ERQUIAGA BT

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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.