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CIA File on Ray, Manuel

Central Intelligence Agency · 219 pages · text by 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. 40 …Word was flashed to the FBI, the National Guard, the CIA, Naval Intelligence, and police units…
  • p. 41 …Nonetheless, his own intelligence unit retrieved 15 high-powered weapons, including one machine gun, from the…
  • p. 137 …He wants a press conference in the jail, as one of his conditions for stopping his…
  • p. 203 United Press International Federal agents examine arms seized at the Erquiaga Co. City of Industry, Calif…
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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 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.