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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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3. CASUAL CONVERSATION BETWEEN DEVANON AND ATTY PAT COLEMAN (REFERENCE) AND BETWEEN COLEMAN AND DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY OPPENHEIM, BOTH ON 2 APR 63 RAISE FOLLOWING POINTS:

4. BECAUSE OF FEDERAL LICENSING, STATE PAY BE PRE- EMPTED, AS REGARDS MACHINE GUNS.

B. IF SEARCH WARRANT RECITED ONLY MACHINE GUNS, SEIZURE OF SILENCERS WAS ILLEGAL, AND EVIDENCE NOT ADMISSIBLE.

C. IF SEARCH WARRANT IS TO BE ATTACKED IT MUST BE PRIOR TO PRELIMINARY MEARING (7 APRIL). FAILURE TO MOVE TO SUPPRESS SUSTAINS PROBABLE CAUSE.

4. THE SEARCH WARRANT NOT AVAILABLE IN FILE TODAY. TRUST OVER ANXIOUS PROSECUTOR IS NOT CORRECTING OVERSIGHT ON SILENCERS.

5. STRONGLY RECOMMEND REFERENCE TO ATTORNEY COLENAN IP ACTION CONTEMPLATED. HE IS 3R, EX-LAPD INSTRUCTOR, EX-ASST. CITY PROSECUTOR, EX SPECIAL ASST. US ATTORNEY CURRENTLY LT. CDR. ONI-RESERVE. HAS NAVY SECRET AND OO/C CLEARANCES. OFF: 625-4551 --RES: 257-9745.

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CFN 8559 STUNTZ DEVANON 45486 ERQUIAGA ARMS COMPANY 5 2 65 GENE

PRICE JUAN ARZCORBE ERQUIAGA LOVELL V KNUDSON 12228 10520 ERQUIAGA

KNUDSON DONALD KELLNER 0900 7 65 CITRUS WEST COVINA F-3636

NO AFFIDAVIT PAT COLEMAN OPPENHEIM 2 65 NOT ADMISSIBLE 7 NOT

AVAILABLE 38 EX-LAPD EX-ASST EX SPECIAL US LT CDR ONI-RESERVE 00/C

626-4451 257-9745

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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.