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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. 88 …Aiken Charles Anderson C/WH/C/CA/PA Dist. 1-RID/201-239298 3-WH/C…

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Cairn of Station, Madrid

LATMAY POLYGRAIL/AMG-1 Contact with 201-774270 in Madrid

Act: For your information

act: A. 241310-4526

B. 241310-4527

C. 241310-4526

L. 241310-4526

1. The following information supplemental to reference was acquired during two station meetings with AWIMG-1 (21 and 23 June 1976) and several meetings with (15/1977-1 during the same period.

2. ANTAM-1 expects that Subject (201-77270) will be returning to Cuba in the gene future. (In relation to the return of Subject to Cuba, Subject told QUESTION-1 on 12 July that he had received permission to return and had discussed this with ANTAM-1 earlier that same day.) Although ANTAM-1 expressed doubts concerning the character and general population of Subject, he nevertheless told that Subject, in conjunction with his brother (201-73462), had potential for contact within military circles in Cuba.

3. In general no doubt it would have made during the conversations between Ahmadol and subject in Madrid. However, various means of communication were established for future contact:

A. Mail. ABPANG-1 have Subject three different will drops in the United States (New York, Vienna, and San Juan, Puerto Rico) for his correspondence to ABPANG-1 from inside Cuba.

B. Telephone. In the event that telephone contact is desired, Subject in to call Harcourt "Horrita" ORCERTGUSE, who resides in Miami and is the daughter of the former owner of the Portagaz Cigarette Company in Cuba. MORITGUSE in turn is to contact AMEANG-1. (continued)

Distribution:

2- C/ LCR

2- LC/ B3/C

2- CCG. JENA7H

Group I - Excluded free automatic comproting and coclarification

201-734422

051570

20 July 1916

201-239298

201-772270

991-990269

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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.