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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.

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  • 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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PAGE 2 WH/MIAMI 2233 SECRET

BENEFIT HAITIAN EXILES.

3. AMOT REPORT OF 24 OCT 57: RAY REPORTED GLOSSY CONNECTED WITH JUAN BOSCH, EX-PRESIDENT OF DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND FILES SHOW RAY TRAVELLED PUERTO RICO TO SANTO DOMINGO ON FOLLOWING DATES:

22 AUG 67, 4 OCT 67, 1 FEB 68, 2 MAY 68, 26 AUG 62 AND 21 OCT 68.

4. ATTEMPTING OBTAIN INFO RAY'S CURRENT ACTIVITIES. WILL ADVISE IF RESULTS POSITIVE. RAY INIS U.S. CITIZEN NOW.

5. FILE: 221-230202.

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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.