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.
“FBI file”5 pages
NNNN RR 2015 DE 8587/92 P1/16592 R 2116452 ZEA BT XXXXZEA FOUR FIGHT FOUR VA SECRET - INTERNAL USE ONLY TDTG 211649Z VA CITE LANG 8557 SUPPORT (STUNTZ) FROM DEVANON SUBJ: CASE 45486 - ERQUIAGA ARMS COMPANY REF 2 (A) LA-484-64, DTC 27 OCT 64 (9) SUPPORT MEMO, SUBJ: ERGUIAGA 19 SUBMACHINE GUN, DTD 8 DEC 64 （C）VA-679S1 1. AS BEST WE SEE IT, SEIZURE REPORTED IN REF (C) IS LONG STORY. ACTUALLY OUR DELAY IN REPLYING TO REF (B) WAS PURELY DISCRETIONARY, SINCE THE WIND HAS BEEN BLOWING STRONG ON THE WEST COAST WITH TREASURY (ACCOUNT THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION), AND WITH CALIFORNIA (THEN) ATTORNEY GENERAL (WHOSE PRINCIPAL VOPSIES SEEMED TO BE FASCISTS AND RIGHT-WINGERS) AGAINST GUN MANUFACTURERS, DEALERS, ETC. AS A CONSEQUENCE, IT SEEMED THAT ERQUIAGA'S PROBLEMS WERE INEVITABLE, THOUGH POSSIBLY NOT ALTOGETHER DESERVED. 2. SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, NEW CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL LYNCH (MOSK, HIS PREDECESSOR, WENT TO STATE SUPREME COURT) HAD STATE
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 219 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.