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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.
“FBI file”5 pages
## Nemo So. 771 1 September 1966 MEMORANDUM POR: Chief, OPS Cuba/WH Division/DDP ATTENTION: Mr. Harry Mahoney SUBJECT: MIG-21 Attached is a copy of the communication in which DIA authorizes $100,000 should your operation to acquire a MIG-21 succeed. As is indicated in the message, funds are already on hand in Sovmat to effect the immediate reward for the pilot. JOHN A. JEERNINGS Chief, Sovmat Staff, DCS Attachment DIACO 5099-66
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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.