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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. 39 …anti-Jewish guerrilla gang which has its headquarters in Birmingham, Alc. It requires its members to…
  • p. 41 …unsolicited long distance telephone calls from IHS headquarters in Washington and California demanding to know "why…
  • p. 70 …During a brief TDY stopover at Headquarters on 23 August 1966, QUSPORT-1 said he had…
  • p. 174 …Other Headquarters traces were summarized in WAVE 1598 of 7 May 1969.
  • p. 202 …Manuel RAY Rivero called from Puerto Rico to the WH/C office at Headquarters on the…
  • p. 203 …Lynch said the group was closely associated" with the Ku Klux Klan and had headquarters in…
  • p. 216 …FROM Chief of Station, Madrid ONLY QUALIFIED HEADQUARTERS DESA CAN JUDGE INDEXING SUBJECT KEYWAY/PERIOR/Subject…

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: Director Fedoral Bureau of Investigation Attention: Mr. S.J. Papich

FROM : Deputy Director for Plans

SUBJECT Juan ERQUIAGA Aizcorbo

1. Reference is made to your report dated 23 April 1963, Title: Rene Miguel Valdes; Los Angeles Bureau File 97-3805.

2. Juan ERQUIAGA Aizcorbe was reported in May 1964 to be living at 430 Chesterton Street, La Puente, California.

3. It is requested that this Agency be provided with any information which may be developed concerning travels of Subject since 1 January 1965. Of special interest would be any information which may be available concerning trips to Latin America during this period.

CSCI 316/00923-65

9 March 1965

WH/C/CA/PA/PMaggard:car

Based on: Contact Report Dtd 22 February 65

Distribution:

File No. 201-239298

2C1-239298

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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.