JFK Assassination System Date: 6/5/2015 _ Identification Form Agency Information Peleased under the John] Kennedy AGENCY: FBI ; RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10291-10210 MSSasS5 ination Records : ollection Act of 1992 RECORD SERIES : HQ (44 USC 2107 Note). ; ase#:NW 54046 Date: AGENCY FILENUMBER: —97-4546-4TH NR 3 poet Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI. FROM: SAC,MM TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: DATE: 03/30/1961 PAGES: 11 SUBJECTS : MR, BKG, EMP, ASSOC, CASTRO, FIDEL, RMC, ACA DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: , Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 06/11/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS: INC LHM v9.1 Hw 54046 DocId: 32307070 Page 1
on SS ~~ - OPTIONAL FORM NO, 10 ps we, ’ . : an _ * $010—104—01 . we | ¢“~ ‘UNITED sTares( VERNMENT “es 7 . “Memorandum | TO DATE: Director, PBI (105-95357) March 30, 1961 FROM + SAC, Miema (66~2652). | oe IRON » CONTAINED SUBJECT: 13 ~ CUBK DATE Wife Brsenbg Re New York airtel te Burcay Par and EE TeX | teletypes te Bareau 3/27 and 29/61. “Cric) in, inclosed ave 12, copies of a letterhead memorandum Bb _ ; actting forth inforwation conceraing captioned matter. Yor igfermation ef New York and Washington Field, “OD fa s/ewmarized iaterviewa of JOSE MIRC CARROSA Miand xenetyne Ny Cop ies of instant letterhead memorandum are bedag MS | furnished New York and Wiashingtoa Field on interview of One MANUEL RAY RIVERO, and another io being Zurnished separately om the interview of MIRO CARDONA, to keep those offices fully i informed on the activity of this ’ coalition ef groups, which | . | appear to be most active in ane New York, and Washington, AY. ! | | D. Cc. Vy : It is noted that seither BIRO CARDONA nor MANUEL, ™ BAY like to consider or refer to the Consejo Revoluciouarico gE (Revolutionary Council) as a government im exile, It does - not, in fact, £4131 the qualifications of a government ia A | / exile since it is not ea established entity as yet which F | ean be recognized by other govermmests, and, according to most reliable soureés, it has no intentions of actually ig becoming a governnent im exile. g . {netant interview was ab eunnion for ateonems Agents eppiT Ly SWEET and WI abl Ak G. YRISDEMANE by 2 JERTO. (Hew Yors wae aperes eee, 2 1) (au (au) Le ~ Washington Field (noscag06)> (fa0..-1) (RH) 4 — ilemd (2 - 66-2652) a - 66-26 G71) i. | vr. Ch wm 208-1748) ELS: ad HW 54046 Docld: 32307070 Page 2?
Mp MM 66-2652 CASTELLANOS GOMEZ and his uncle, Doctor AGUSTIN CAGTELLANOS: ONZALEZ. Tho Bureau is avare of the background of the 4, undor hig father LOIS, head of the National Burcau of iéeatizication in Cuba from about 2640. Ho became a policeman in about 1947 or 1948, asd was a Lieutenant ftom the BAPTISTA regime over into the CASTRO regime, | untak moar the end of 1969, at which tine he was jailed by PIDEL CASTRO and held inommicado. Sor 31 days. His | velease was laxgely effected through the intervention of . MANUEL RAY, who ig a former classmate of RIGORERTO CASTERLANGS, entire CASTELLANOS Zamday. RIGORERTO’s fomily vorked Rector AGUSTIN CASTELLANOS is a three time candidate for the Nobel prize in medicine and is a very reputable, well kuows chijdrea's heart specialist, who has always stayed abreast of politics in Guibas, oth of these sources are personal - friends of Special. Agent SWEET since 1942, Both sources regard RAY ac not being @ Commuaiat ‘and 4t would be difficult to do se since be is xz ' @ige opposed to certain large Cuban capitalistic iaterestes who in the past have coatributed very little to the progress (of the country and who own immense, largely umtilied, tracts of land which they acquired through mo personal efforts of theie own and. which RAY regards as holdiag back the social aud econamic progress of Cuba. These sources place RAY soucvhere in betwoen these capitalistic latifgundias and -the radical leftists and Communists whe would convert all private _ ‘property to the use of the state. | Doctor AGUSTIN CASTELLANOS recommends RAY as a moceasary element to win the popular supgort im Cuba and the large working class, and believes RAY Will be very Willing to cooperate with the Usited States 12 assistance is given him in esrly and immediate problems of reconstructing the Cuban economy. “While RAY's mame 4s not concealed by @ renga aymbo), 3 aly furncshiag ’ wo Bw HW 54046 Docld: 32307070 Page 3