v9.1 HW 50529 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : DoclId: 32253374 JFK Assassination System Date: Identification Form Agency Information HSCA 180-10089-10432 NUMBERED FILES 006468 Document Information CIA PALMER, BETSY DIRECTOR FILE REVIEW AT FBI, MARCH 16, 17, AND 20, 1978 03/22/1978 17 AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES, FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE ANTI-CASTRO ACTIVITIES CIA, ADMINISTRATION RIVERO, MANOLO RAY ODIO, SYLVIA OSWALD, LEE, POST-RUSSIAN PERIOD, POLITICAL... FBI, ADMINISTRATION % MEMORANDUM Unclassified Consulted Withhold 07/30/1993 Box 125. Page 1 9/30/201
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HW 50529 99 648% MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR FROM: BETSY PALMER #Y) DATE: March 22, 1978 SUBJECT: File Review at the FBI, March 16, 17, and 20, 1978 MANOLO RAY RIVERO aka MANUEL RAY, MANUEL REY By memo of February 17, 1978, I submitted to you a review of FBI file #97-4546, Section 1, Serials X-24 and mentioned that two additional files were read by Patricia Orr. Since no notes were taken on two files, I returned to the FBI on March 16 to finish the review. At that time, I found that additional material had been added to the Manolo Ray section, and three days were required to finish the assignment. This second review was done on March 16, 17 and 20. Attached is a report of the information obtained from the March file review on Manolo Ray. Also attached is a suggested list of names and topics to be indexed from this review, as the material read was extensive and not all names are pertinent to this Committee. Please note that the first file review on Manolo Ray has been filed under #005990. For purposes of continuity, it would be helpful if this number were assigned to the material presented in this memorandum. Docld: 32253374 Page 3
For purposes of indexing, used from this report. OMWAID OB wre I suggest the following names be MANOLO RAY RIVERO aka MANUET, REY, MANUEL RAY ELOY GUITERREZ MENOYO DUNNEY PIO PEREZ ALAMO LAUREANO BATISTA FALLA CARLOS ZARRAGA LUIS POSADA ROGELIO CISNEROS DIAZ JOAQUIN GODOY COLONEL RAMON BAROUIN ANTONIO VECIANA BLANCH SYLVIA ODIO LEE HARVEY OSWALD ANDREW ST. GEORGE MITCHELL WER BELL III MARCOS DIAZ LANZ ORLANDO BOSCH CHE GUEVERRA FIDEL CASTRO For purposes of indexing, be used from this report. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. JURE SNPE CUBA LIBRE MRP ALPHA 66 ERQUIAGA ARMS COMPANY ELC I suggest the following groups/companies HW 350529 Doct: 3225334 Page 4
HW 50529 File Review, Manolo Ray, FBI March !7 and 20, 1978 Continuation of Section 97-4546 File 97 4546, Section | - Serials X-24 written in a Memorandum to the Director on February !7, 1978. File 97-4546, Section 2, Serials 25 ---- July 2, 1964, Teletype to Director from Miami Subject: JURE ~ Internal Security, Cuba Re: CIA teletype dated 7/2/64 on JURE Chief Ray's imminent departure +o Cuba from Miami on July 3 by Small Boat Miami INS advised Ray processed on July | last concerning his admissibility +o re-enter U.S. following capture to Bahamas June | last. Ray found admissible. n view of Buairtel December 12 last instructing no inquiries desired re: JURE plans to infiltrate Cuba, Miami taking no action upon basis of CIA message. CIA intelligence information Cable dated 4/9/64 deleted - | page in length. April 23, 1964, Memo to Director from San Juan Subject: JURE Re: Information developed to determine if JURE receiving financial assistance from Venezuelan Government relative to its obligation to register under provisions of Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) On 6/26/63, CIA said JURE received $6,000 monthly from Venezuelan Govt. Leading members of JURE deny knowledge of any such payment. One JURE member In Miami, ANTONIO ARIAS GONZALEZ, said Confederation of Venezuelan dorkers had a bond raising rally for JURE. RA refused to furnish financial information to San Juan office. San Ju an Office doesn't feel past investigation has shown that JURE has incurred an obligation to register under FARA and that CIA probably furnishing bulk of financial support. Department of State telegram 4469 dated 6/4/64 deleted, | page in length. October 12, 1964 Memo from San Juan marked SECRET. Re: JURE States that another Government Agency furnished information that RAY was friendly with members of Puerto Rican group which plotted to assissinate PRESIDNET TRUMAN. He (RAY) is a good friend of Puerto Rican Communist PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS. When the White House was being renovated, RAY had contact with Puerto Ricaas engaged in that work. Made many phone calls to United States (particularly Washington, D.C.) while he still lived in Cuba. Made calls from home of CARLOS GOVANTES who is an arcit-eet and may live in Kansas City, Missouri, probably emp loyed by Klipper Company. Carlos has a brother Henry: in Silver Sprins, MD. Docld: 32253374 Page 5
File Review, FBI, Manolo Ra, FBI March 17 and 20, 1978 Page 2 Ray has many enemies in Cuba who know him as a Communist. Some of his supporters are working for communists in Cuba. 6. CIA report CSDB 312/00862-64, dated 10/19/64 deleted, | page in length 7. Supplemental Correlation Summary January 13, 1965 Subject: MANUEL RAY RIVERO A. On July 11, 1963, DR. CARLOS MARQUES STERLING said RAY of JURE and ELOY GUITERREZ MENOYO of SNFE had reached an understanding whereby DR. ANUEL URRUTIA would become President and RAY Prime Minister of Cuba after overthrowing CASTRO. DR. MARQUEZ said both men were not too far removed from CASTRO in their thinking and would not be accepted by Cuban people. B. On August 16, 1963, CIA reported RAY arrived in Miami and met with MANUEL QUIZA DOCAL, leader of Cubanos Libres at which time DOCAL committed himself to JURE. C. August 26, 1963, CIA advised +hat MANUEL DUASAO who was a G-2 member in Cuba at beginning of Revolution was now associated with HUBER MATOS and RAY in Miami. D. September 20, 1963 RAY in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Purpose unknown. E. October 3, 1963 New YOrk World Telegram carried story of a possible overthrow of PRESIDENT DUVALIER of Haiti by Cuban exiles. RAY specifically mentioned in sry as a Cuban exile leader. F. Octobier 13, 1963 RAY was to visit Venezuela to seek mora! support of PRESIDENT ROMULO BETANCOURT and persuade him +o intercede on JURE's b-ehalf with PRESIDENT ORLICH of Costa Rica. G. Hondurian PRESIDENT RAMON VILLEDA MORALES announced plans for a symposium on October 9-15, 1963 and said MANOLO RAY had backing of himself and PRESIDENT ORL!ICH of Costa Rica. H. November 2, 1963, MDC leader in Miami said RAY enjoyed no sympathies among Cubans and had leftist tendencies. |. LEE HARVEY OSWALD file referemces 16 JURE amd SLYVIA ODIO # 105-82555, Serials 896 1020 4263 encl p. 3,4,9,6.7 4266 encl p. 7 A301 encl. p. 7 HW 50529 —Docld:32253374 Page 6
HW 50529 File Review, FBI, Manolo Rey March {7 and@s20, 1978 Page 3 |, January 19, 1964 Miami Herald carried article that ELC announced its union with JURE headed by RAY. On January 22, 1964, DUNNEY PIO PEREZ ALAMO, Chief of Military Operations for ELC, advised that ELC at one time was part of same group which currently comprised JURE. He stated RAY had been head of MRP at time of Cuban invasion of April 1961. Said RAY regarded leader of MRP but only on The JURE Executive Board. When RAY resign.ed as head of MRP after the Bay of Pigs and formed JURE, the ELC was formed from a segment of the former MRP. PEREZ aaid RAY a firm believer in democracy and disputed "Fidelisimo without Fidel™ theory. Said RAY worked clandestinely in Cuba after he renounced his position as Minister of Public. Works under Castro. J. January 6, 1964 Informant in contact with U.S. Representative Donald C. Bruce (Indiana) office concerning "Operation Judas" which allegedly was a MATOS/RAY plan to assassinate CASTRO. Informant did not Know of it. CIA did not know of it. K. February 15-20, 1964 CIA says RAY expected to arrive Caraccas to establish a guerilla training base to be used by Cuban exiles in Panama and Venezuela. (Field Comment -- such a base would probably have the tacit consent of BENTANCOURT government). CIA believes RAY planning to enter Cuba clandestinely before JURE's planned uprising on May 20, 1964. Le arch I1, 1964 A hotel night clerk in Puerto Rico finds a letter, written in French, and addressed to RAY which contained a list of arms, ammunition and explosives to equip 50 menz M. ay 1964 LAUREANO BATISTA FALLA, Military Chief of MDC in Miami, claimed that the underground in Cuba planned to start guerilla and military warefare activity. RAY gave impression he would be in Cuba and fead the activity. BATISTA said RAY would be there either on orders of Us"S. government or Cuban undergound. Said real chiefs were in Cuba and would make all the decisions. N. CIA advises on May 26, 1964 that MARIA ELENA de CARDENAS supposed to be working for JURE in New York but sending information to CASTRO. O. Resume of RAY received by Bureau, June 22, 1964. RAY was an architect in Ministry of Public Works during Batista regime and at the same time traitorously Chief of July 26 Movement in Havana; great friend of engineer (FNU) ARROYO, Minister of Public Works under CASTRO; sanctioned as Minister, the Ten Laws of PRESIDENT MANUEL URRUTIA, which led to communization of Cuba; denied his brother, Rene, refuge which resulted in the latter's being killed; and continued as Minister and a friend of CASTRO after his brother's death. Docld: 32253374 Page 7
Page 4 File Review, Manolo Ray, FBI arch |I7,and'&20, 1978 P, June 23, 1964 CARLOS ZARRAGA stated that Cuba Libre recently incorporated into JURE. Said two of his men accompanied RAY in an effort +o infiltrate Cuba which resulted in their capture by Britist authorites in the Bahamas on 6/1/64. LUIS POSADA headed a training camp on property of WEIR P. WILLIAMS in Po'ttk County, Florida. Q. From Anti-Fidel Castro Activities Main file 109-584 RAY says SOMOZA family a "Dynastic tyranny in Nicaragua" quoted in Miami Herald article 9/8/63. R. December 6, 1963 - RAY in New York City, planned to travel to California and return to Puerto Rico -- interested in obtaining explosives. S, January 31, 1964 article in Miami News. Five exile groups merged with JURE under RAY; CUBA LIBRE Revolutionary National Assembly National Revolutionary Cuban Front Liberating Army of Cuba Cuban unites trained by U.S. Army at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. T. RAY headed one of two groups of anti-Castro Cubans training in Costa Rica since October 1963. U. Reliable source in Columbus, Georgia claimed to have sold considerable arms to RAY. Informant did not doubt that RAY would try to establish some military activity in Cuba in the near future. (Santiago Alvarez Rodriguez 2/6/64) V. ROGELIO CISNEROS DIAZ recognized as representative of JURE in The U.S. since RAY engaged in clandestine effort To invade Cuba. Note: JURE file #105-114543, page 29 gives file reference to RAY SNFE (operation Alpha 66) file #105-112098 References not included in summary are listed in Special File Room of Files and Communications Division Records Branch (see page 22 of summary). 8. CIA report CSDB 312/01396-65 dated 6/9/65 of 2 page length, deleted. Entitled: Lecture of MANUEL RAY RIVERO to members of JURE"s Delegation from Tampa, Orlando and Maimi, Florida. 9, CIA report TDCSDB 315/02535-65 dated 7/28/65 of | page length deleted. 10. Airtel to SAC, San Juan, Miami Legat Santo Domingo from Director states MANUEL RAY wishes to meet with Carmen Bosch to discuss a matter concerning her husband, JUAN BOSCH, former Dominican President HW 50529 DBocld:32253374 Page 6
HW 50529 pile Review, Manolo Ray, FBI March 17 and 20, 1978 Page 5 ll. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. CIA report on RAY's address to JURE indicates RAY said JURE had left some weapons in a Dominican military base and they would be returned no matter who took over in the Dominican Republic. Report dated 5/19/66 CIA Report CS DB 312/01459-66 dated 5/27/66 deleted 1 page in length. Airtel to Director from Legat, Santo Domingo. One of the Election observers in Dominican Republic says that RAY and CARLOS DIAGO DIAGO of Puerto Rico should not be allowed to monitor elections in Dominican Republic since they were controlled agents of CIA. August 18, 1966 memo to Director from SAC, San Juan. In June 1966, RAY travels from Puerto Rico to Madrid, Spain to meet with Rafael Bongo. February 2 and March 11, 1966 reports. Informant says new Cuban exile group, Partido de la Revolucion meeting in Miami. RAY and JOAQUIN GODOY involved in project. In March 1966, GODOY in contact with "leftist democrat" SACHA VOLMAN. March 3, 1966 Informant says CHARLES SIMEON using SNFE office space in Miami for development of Cuban Center for Political Studies under direction of RAY. February 25, 1966 MANUEL VARELA CASTRO, former JURE officer received information from ROGELIO CISNEROS that in February 1966, RAY was in Costa Rica visiting Daniel Oduber who had lost election for President of Costa Rica. While there, RAY participated in conference of university students and verbally attacked the United States. A Spanish publication of January 1966 entitled "Revolucion" contained an article on page 4, "Creation of the Cuban Center of Political Studies of Puerto Rico" which related that 20 Cuban exiles held a meeting in San Juan, one of whom was RAY, for the purpose of establishing above-mentioned Center with objective being the convocation of a revolutionary congress. December 21, 1965 Source says COLONEL RAMON BARQUIN is attempting to bring members into Comite de Unidad in Puerto Rico to combat RAY's "left wing" group. fa Docld: 32253374 Page 9