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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.
“Los Angeles Times”6 pages
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PRIORITY DIR CITE SJOS 7491 C. DIR 63SS6 DATED 13 NOVEMBER 1964 1. DISCOVERY OF ERQUIACA ARMS CACHE, ACCORDING HUMAP-9 THE SAME ARMS DISCUSSED IN REFS, GETTING FRONT PAGE TREATMENT LOCAL PRESS. PRENSA LIBRE ISSUE OF 29 MARCH CARRIED AP STORY QUOTING LOWELL KNUDSON OF ERQUIACA THAT HIS COMPANY WORKING WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE IN MAKING THE ARMS IN QUESTION. KNUDSON ALSO QUOTED AS SAYING THE ERQUIACA HAS A PURCHASE ORDER FROM THE COSTA RICAN GOVERNMENT FOR 500 AUTOMATIC PISTOLS THAT ERQUIACA IS MAKING FOR USE BY CUBAN PARTIOTS AGAINST FIDEL CASTRO. KNUDSON DENIES THAT ARMS WERE FOR RIGHT-WING PRIVATE ARMIES IN THE US. LA REPUBLICA OF 32 MARCH CARRIES AMBASSADOR FACIO'S DENIAL (ALSO AN AP STORY) THAT GOCR HAD ORDERED ARMS FROM KNUDSON'S COMPANY. WE ASSUME THAT IF PRESSED KNUDSON CAN PROVE GOCR INVOLVEMENT IN REF A ORDER BY SHOWING ORIGINAL LF LETTER SIGNED BY HUMAP-9. ## SECRET
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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.