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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.
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NNNN SR R215 DE 0647/PA 05/2057Z R 652849Z ZEA CT XXXXX ZEA FOUR EIGHT SIX A 1. SECRET TDTG 052049Z VA CITE LAND 8559 SUPPORT (STUNTZ) FROM DEVANON SUBJ: CASE 454R6 - ERGUIAGA ARMS COMPANY REF: DEVANON-STUNTZ TELECON, DTD 2 APR 65 1. FILES REVIEWED S APRIL A. RECORDS SHOW FELONY COMPLAINT FILED 2 APR 65 BY GENE FRICE, FROM STATE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, ACCUSING JUAN ARZCORBE ERGUIAGA AND LOWELL V. KNUDSON OF (COUNT ONE) VIOLATION OF SEC 12220 (POSSESSION OF MACHINE GUNS AND OFFERING THEM FOR SALE) AND (COUNT TWO) VIOLATION OF SEC 12522 (POSSESSION OF SILENCERS FOR MACHINE GUNS) OF THE CALIFORNIA PENAL CODE. COMPLAINT ASKED FOR ISSUANCE OF WARRANT FOR DEFENDANTS' ARREST. B. WARRANT ISSUED SAME DATE FOR EPGUIAGA. D. ALL ABOVE IN MUNICIPAL COURT OF CITRUS JUDICIAL DISTRICT, WEST COVINA, CASE F-3636. C. ALSO SAME DATE, KNUDSON APPEARED FOR ARRAIGNMENT WITH COUNSEL, DONALD KELLNER. HE AGREED TO APPEAR AT PRELIMINARY HEARING, 0900, (WEDNESDAY) 7 APRIL 63 AND WAS RELEASED ON OWN RECOGNIZANCE. 2. FILE CONTAINED NO AFFIDAVIT AND REQUEST FOR SEARCH WARRANT, NOR COPY OF SEARCH WARRANT, RETURN, NO RECEIPTS FOR SEIZURE. CLERK CLAIMED IGNORANCE AND REFERRED TO DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
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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.