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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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DISPATCH
CLASSIFICATION	PROCESSING
	SECRET ACCOMPLISHED
Deputy Chief, MIL'Cuba
COS, Santo Domingo/ Chief, WHD
Chief of Station, JMWAVE
SUBJECT TYPIC/ANBANG/Operational Activities of the M/V VENUS
ACTION REQUIRED: REFERENCES
Action: FYI
1. ANTOD-1 reported on 29 March 1965 that AMDOG-1 has been going to JURE's Miami office every day and on several occasions has talked to Jose PUENTE Blanco. Each time PUENTE has told him to be patient, that Manuel RAY Rivero is solving the problems so that JURE can start fighting again.
2. The last time AMDOG-1 talked to PUENTE, on 27 March, PUENTE said that the M/V VENUS has been transporting cargoes of fruit between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
3. RAY is expected in Miami during the first week of April.
Margaret R. Haukall
Andrew K. REUTEMAN
Dist:
3 - Hqs.
2 - Santo Domingo - To our Poch Inc and uncle
2 - WHD
Group 1: Excluded from Automatic Downgrading and Declassification

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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.