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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.
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Manue RA4 1. The Subject telephoned Rafael GARCIA-BANGO Dirube on 15 June 1966 who asked him to come to Madrid as soon as possible so that he could be back in San Juan before the 25th of June. The implication was that the Subject should be back in San Juan in time to talk to a Cuban who was with the Cuban delegation to the Tenth Central American and Caribbean Games. (Jorge GARCIA-BANGO Dirube, Rafael's brother, was a delegate to the Games.) 2. The Subject and Rafael GARCIA BANCO developed a plan that involved two action agents already inside Cuba. One was to assassinate Fidel Castro Ruz, either by rifle fire or remote controlled radio activated explosives while the other agent was to establish a military base in the 'central part of Cuba'. Station Madrid spoke with the Subject who reported that he believed Fidel CASTRO would topple within the next few months and that he already had a group inside Cuba. 3. The Subject was interviewed upon his return to San Juan where he reported that he did not have any firm evidence that CASTRO would topple within the next few months but only that he intuitively believed that Castro's downfall was imminent. He based this on reports that things were getting worse in Cuba and that the people were ready to revolt. He also based it on the fact that he now has two action agents 'of the same caliber as AMLASH inside Cuba' who are ready to do his bidding. 4. The Subject's 'agents' inside Cuba are probably Jorge GARCIA BANGO Dirube, who might cooperate with his
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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.