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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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# GUN MERCHANTS TO AMERICA'S HATE GROUPS

CIA-approved Arizona factory sold 45-cal. "Spitfire" machine guns as sporting weapons to Cuban exiles (photo). paramilitary"home defense" groups, and black nationalists... until IRS crack-down.

While the Administration, Congress and various law-enforcement groups have worked for years for some sort of gun-control legislation, the shocking truth is that the Central

Intelligence Agency was secretly subsidizing the manufacture of thousands of machine guns which were being snapped up by some of the worst extremists in the U.S. today!

Last year, Attorney General Thomas Lynch of California ordered a raid on a secret machine gun plant in City of Industry (a suburb of L.A.), which did not have state permission for the manufacture, possession, sale or transportation of such weapons—but was churning them out illegally with the blessings of the CIA

Of all the dangerous elements that exist in our society today, the most subversive would have to be any organization found arming the extremist elements-of either side-with modern weapons for possible civil war.

In this light, brought to the public's attention for the first time anywhere, is SAGA's J'accusat The CIA is responsible for arming far-out extremist groups in their preparation for civil conflict which could ultimately produce chaos in America. The CIA has, indeed, been covertly bankrolling the manufacture of thousands of revolutionary automatic weapons in secret plants under the vory nosos of high state and city officials.

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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.