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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. 38 …Proctor Avon in the City of Industry, a Los Angeles suburb, looks like any of a…
  • p. 39 …Los Angeles county and state (plus federal) officers swooped down on the Eriquiaga plant, armed with…
  • p. 40 …whom and with what?" demanded The Los Angeles Times, a newspaper with nearly 1,000,000…
  • p. 152 …ASSOCIATED WITH LOS ANGELES 26 JULY CLUB. (DBF 11596 DTD 15 OCT 59.) B. INVOLVED SENDING…
  • p. 193 …THE GUNS WERE BOOKED INTO THE LOS ANGELES SHERIFF'S OFFICE. PRESUMably TITLE IS STILL IN…
  • p. 201 …Mayo Stunz in 00, who agreed to query his Los Angeles office immediately to find out…

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2. VIEW RECENT OPPOSITION CHARGES THAT US GOVERNMENT MELDING IN COSTA RICAN AFFAIRS AND SUPPORTING PARTIDO LIBERACION, WE EXPECT ARMS STORY WILL CONTINUE AS FRONT PAGE POLITICAL ISSUE, TO COMPLICATE MATTERS ODWIFE HAS 500 THIRTY-EIGHT CALIBER PISTOLS ON ORDER FOR GUARDIA CIVIL AND DISCOSURE THESE ADDITIONAL ARMS WILL EXACERBATE TENSIONS AND THEY WILL PROBABLY BE CONFUSED WITH AMBANG ARMS.

3. SINCE WE GETTING GARSLED VERSIONS CALIFORNIA ARMS DISCOVERY, AMBASSADOR AND STATION WOULD APPRECIATE ALL PERTINENT FACTS, 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.