Documents / FOIA release
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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1. KUBARK IN NO RPT NO WAY INVOLVED IN ERQUIAGA/MANUEL RAY ARMS DEAL. AS WE UNDERSTAND SITUATION, RAY ACTED INDEPENDENTLY TO SECURE COSTA RICAN BACKING FOR ARMS ORDER. SHORTLY AFTER AGREEING TO HELP RAY ORLICH TOLD CHIEF PBSWING THAT COSTA RICA NO LONGER INTERESTED IN DEAL AND WAS WITHDRAWING SPONSORSHIP OF ORDER. WITHOUT OFFICIAL GOVT UNDERWRITING ODACID WILL NOT ISSUE EXPORT LICENSE. 2. PRELIMINARY CHECK BY HQS SHOWS CLEARLY THERE CONSIDERABLE INTEREST IN ERQUIAGA COMPANY BY CALIFORNIA AUTHORITIES WHO ALLEGE COMPANY ENGAGED IN MANUFACTURE OF ARMS FOR "PRIVATE ARMIES IN CALIFORNIA". ALSO, KUBARK HAS NO CLEARED CONTACTS OR READY ACCESS TO OFFICIALS OF COMPANY. 3. HQS RECALLS ALREADY RATHER EMBARRASSING POSITION CHIEF PBSWING AND ODYOKE NOW IN AS RESULT CR CONGRESSIONAL ATTACK. 4. IN VIEW ABOVE CIRCUMSTANCES HQS WILL TAKE NO RPT NO ACTION THIS TIME TO INTERCEDE WITH COMPANY TO PREVENT LETTER SURFACING. WHILE WE SYMPATHIZE WITH HUMAP-9'S POSITION WE CANNOT MOVE IN
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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.