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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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# SECRET

10 :. Commissioner of Customs Department of the Treasury Attention: Mr. Lester D. Johnson

FROM Deputy Director for Plans

SUBJFCT : Request for Additional Information

REFERENCE: Conversation of 20 May 1964 Concerning Juan ERCUILAGA Aizcorbe in the Los Angeles Area

1. This memorandum is a request for additional information concerning the subject which was discussed by Mr. Oscar Neal on 20 May 1964 with Mr. Joseph O'Neill of this Agency.

2. It would be appreciated if your office would provide us with any additional information concerning a lot of weapons from:

Eruquiaga Arms Company

15036 Froctor Avenue

City of Industry, California

which was located recently by your representatives at:

Apex Kifle Company

7623 San Fernando Road

Sun Valley (California)

We are specifically interested in ascertaining (a) the quantity and the type of weapons which were located and whether or not they were confiscated and (b) to whom the arms actually belong. For your information we have a report that the weapons were specially made for Manolo RAY, Cuban exile leader.

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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.