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.
“Madrid”16 pages
# Gun Company Got Warning State Discloses The Erquiaga Arms Co. which yielded 373 machine guns to a raiding party last week. was warned four months ago that it was operating without a state license. Atty. Gen. Thomas C. Lynch's office disclosed Monday. The arms company did not respond to the warning, the attorney general said. Lynch said he learned Monday that the U.S. State Department had denied a gun export license requested by the firm. ## For Foes of Castro An Erquiaga spokesman had been quoted as saying the State Department approved of the manufacture of machine guns because they would be supplied to anti-Castro Cubang. Meanwhile, suggestions that the machine guns might be destined for such extremist "private armies" as the Rangers brought a complaint from the Ranger Battalion Assn. of World War II, a legitimate veterans organization. The association said it is against extremist movements and opposes the use of the name. Ranger, by any other group. A raiding party of 30 federal state and local officials confiscated the automatic weapons and 100,000 rounds of ammunition Friday night at the company, 15036 E. Proctor Ave., City of Industry. ```markdown ```
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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.