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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.
“Madrid”16 pages
- ROUTINE IN-43194, 39618, -45533, 45016 PAGE 1 OF 3 PAGES STATE/INR DIA AR 11 NAVY AIR JCS SECDEF NSA NIC DOO ONE OCR CIA/NMCC FDI I&NS REPCINCLANT DDI IA This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Explorage Laws. Title 12, U.S.C. Secs 792 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorised person is prohibited by law. CONTROLLED DISSEM THIS IS AN INFORMATION REPORT. NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE. TDC5DB-315/01831-66 DIST 28 JUNE 1966 COUNTRY CUBA/SPAIN DOI 15-26 JUNE 1966 SUBJECT PLANS OF CUBAN EXILES FOR POSSIBLE ATTEMPTS TO USURP POWER OF FIDEL CASTRO RUZ ACQ SPAIN, MADRID (17-23 JUNE 1966) FIELD NO. PUERTO RICO, SAN JUAN (25 JUNE 1966) SOURCE PARAS. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6: QUALIFIED AMERICAN OBSERVER WHO OBTAINED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION FROM RAY. PARA. 2: RESIDENT OF MADRID WITH MANY CONTACTS AMONG CUBAN EXILES IN SPAIN. SOURCE-IS-A NEW AND UNTESTED ASSET. 1. ON 15 JUNE 1966 RAFAEL GARCIA-BANGO, A CUBAN EXILE RESIDING IN SPAIN, RECEIVED A TELEPHONE CALL IN MADRID FROM MANUEL RAY IN PUERTO RICO, LEADER OF THE CUBAN EXILE GROUP JURE, REGARDING PLANS TO ASSUME POWER IN CUBA. GARCIA-BANGO TOLD RAY THAT IT WAS ESSENTIAL THAT HE COME TO MADRID BEFORE 25 JUNE. HE IMPLIED THAT RAY SHOULD BE BACK IN SAN JUAN IN ORDER TO TALK TO A MEMBER OF THE CUBAN DELEGATION FOR THE 10TH CARIBBEAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN GAMES IN PUERTO RICO, PRIOR TO THE RETURN OF THE DELEGATION TO CUBA. RAY AGREED TO DO SO. - S-E-C-R-E T CONTROLLED DISSEM (classification) (dissem controls)
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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.