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
g. AMBANG stated that Pedro Miret (201-169120) is a man of slight capacity who would not be to upset of the Castro regime fell so long as he did not get his throat cut in the progress. I expressed a great deal of interest in Miret, asking especially why he should have been selected to make two recent trips to Moscow. AMBANG did not have any idea. I raised the subject of Miret, again, to put him into the exile rumor mill as a person of special interest to the US, and thus to flesh out some of the other parts of our program. h. Armando Hart (201-222675), according to AMBANG, does not have the qualities of an administrator but he is very good at situating himself politically, organizing politically and, in general, wheeling and dealing. He is NOT under his wife's thumb, as many say. AMBANG regards Hart as a much more decent person than Aragones and to be well placed in Aragone's old job because he does not have notoriously close connections with any of the personalities or factions within the 26th of July crowd but gets along with them all. i. Concerning the differences between the city and sierra fighters in the 26th of July, AMBANG stated they are real and that the city group fought and suffered much more. j. AMBANG believes this is not the time for the US or exiles to make menacing gestures against Cuba, for this would merely provide Castro with distractions from internal problems and perhaps enable him to rally popular support. 2. I believe that later in the summer it might be a good idea to have another talk with AMBANG to keep up with exile thinking, and feeding more deception thoughts. Chrity W. Aiken Charles Anderson C/WH/C/CA/PA Dist. 1-RID/201-239298 3-WH/C/CA/PA
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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.