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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.
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# Minutemen Deny Purchase From Arms Company Troy Bingham, Western area coordinator of the Minutemen, today denied published reports that his organization has purchased or contracted for any automatic weapon or weapons from the Erquila Arms Co. in the City of Industry. State Atty. Gen. Thomas C. State Alty. Gen. Thomas C. Lynch's men and deputies seized 177 machine type guns and other weapons at the arms plant Friday. Lynch had believed some of the weapons were destined for "p"te armies and mentioned the Minute men Terrel R. Eddy of San Diego also issued a General that the Erquilaga Arms Co. has in its possession a machine gun alleged to belong to me. "Any connection between myself with the arms company, had held, concerned only the modification of a particulat sporting rifle, and at no time was there any description or mention of any other weapons in any form." Owner of the plant said they had a federal license to make machinery glass for trees of Culcas Fidel Castro in Costa Rica. The Costa Rican amabassador yesterday denied that his government had ordered any weapons. Lynn D. Compton chief deputy federal attorney, confirmed, will represent tires of Ford deformer general's office and the attorney, and said the district attorney's office participated only in the preparation of the search warrant is connection with the raid. "We have requested that they furnish us with additional written reports." Compton said. "When we have received all evidence, we will evaluate it and determine what action is appropriate." PERMIT REFUNED A spokesman for Lynch's office said the company's export license, which had been applied for last Jan. 4, was refused by the State Department. He said the first had been cautioned four months ago that regulation of any Federal licenses it was required to have stale licenses. And he added that aliens — three were reportedly confiscated at the arms plant — were illegal in California. ## Body Found Beach The fully an unidenti about 60. beech a Brooks earl. ter ## Costa Rica Purchase of 3-30-65 Guns Denied The Costa Rican government Monday denied Lowell Knudsen's statement that it had ordered four submachine guns from his City of Industry plant for use by anti-Castro Cubans. Knudsen made the statement after federal, state and county officers seized 373 machine guns and other arms from the Erquilaga Arms Co. at 1938 E. Proctor Ave. Friday. Monday, Knudsen said he was starting court action to have the seized arms returned to the factory Earlier Monday. California Atty. Gen. Thomas Lynch reported the U.S. State Department denied another Knudsen statement that he was making the guns for Costa Rica with State Department approval. Instead, the State Department said a request from the company for an export license had been denied and the department had no intention of issuing the company an export license. Comm. W. 14. 17.
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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.