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.
“Madrid”16 pages
SUBJECT: Phone Call from AMBANG, 1 April 1965 # MENORANDUM FOR THE RECORD 1. Subject phoned (collect) on 1 April to determine what information I had arrived at concerning the seizure of arms being made to his order by the ERQUIAGA Manufacturing Company. 2. I told him as far as we were able to determine on the basis of incomplete information that the arms had been seized by the State of California and that their legal right to effect the seizure is open to question. I said I could not give him more definite information because we are awaiting word on the specific statutory authority for the seizure. 6. He will phone on 6 April to see if we have further information. 3. He said that in view of this situation he will proceed on the premise that the arms will probably be returned and will continue efforts to arrange the exportation. 5. He claims that he now has DR agreement to import the arms and that the question of re-export to Venezuela has been abandoned. 4. I told him that the seizure had caused quite a public stir in Costa Rica, and while we did not have all the facts, it might be well for him to check on the current climate there. He said he would. Thomas J. Flores WH/C/COPS
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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.