Documents / FOIA release
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.
“Madrid”16 pages
C. Personal meetings. The following rite was established for personal meetings. Subject will serve a picture of a boat that is utilized by INDER for excursions to ANSANG-1 via mail drop. It appears that INDER has boats which are rected to aportation for deep sea fishing trips. ANSANG-1, in turn, will attempt to procure a boat identical to that in the picture sent by Subject. Accordingly, on given instructions the boat rented by INDER will depart from a point in Cuba, heading for another port in Cuba. All official Cuban Government communication regarding the clearances necessary for the INDER boat will be made by INDER prior to the departure of the boat. The INDER boat would then depart Cuba, heading out to sea ostensibly destined for Havana. The two boats (the INDER boat and the identical boat acquired by ANSANG-1) will rendez-vous on high seas and make appropriate exchanges; then the INDER boat will return to its port of destination. D. Contact with 201-736492. In San Juan the contact between ANDANG-1 and 201-736492 will be made through "El Sordo", who is a cousin of Subject's family and residue in San Juan. 4. ARIANO-1 commented that he had a 102-foot boat which he is willing and intends to use against Pidol. He lamented the fact that approximately 880,000 worth of arms had been lost in Santo Domingo as a result of the insurrection in that country. Loelle H. HENRIQUE
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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.