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CIA File on Ray, Manuel

Central Intelligence Agency · 219 pages · text by 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. 38 …advance cash to Engliaga as part of $250,000 put up by the CIA. The 500…
  • p. 40 …Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. A calm, collected moderate leader…
  • p. 64 …One gets the impression that RAY lives somewhat removed from the actual realities of the Cuban…
  • p. 207 …We have no orders from any groups." the M14 automatic version for No advance. We have…
UNCLASSIFIED INTERNAL USE ONLY CONFIDENTIAL SECRET

ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
SUBJECT: (Optional)
FROM: DC/WH/COG	EXTENSION	NO
DATE 24 March 1967
TO: (Officer designation, room number, and building)	DATE	OFFICER'S INITIALS	COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment)
RECEIVED	FORWARDED
1. C/WH/COG It is 5: When Willemston gets back to peace have him call Kerry see if he is interested in time on WH/WI. Sec pann 3
2. WH/COG/EXO 31
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4. D/COG/ OK
5. C/WH/COG/CA	3 MK
6. C/WH/COG/FI	4/17	4/17
7. C/WH/3
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12. DC/WH/COG
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FORM

3-62 610 USE PREVIOUS EDITIONS SECRET CONFIDENTIAL INTERNAL USE ONLY UNCLASSIFIED

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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.