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.
SUBJECT IS AMBANG-1 (201-239298) BORN HAVANA 13 JUNE 1924. DESIRE NO STATION CONTACT BUT WOULD APPRECIATE REPORTING ON ARRIVAL, ACTIVITIES WHILE IN JAMAICA AND DATE AND DESTINATION UPON DEPARTURE. END OF MESSAGE * WH/C COMMENT: Stated RAY to arrive Jamaica, requested requirements and asked if RAY same as exile leader.
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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.