AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : ° DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 Docld: 32296695 Page 1 AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: JFK Assassination System Date: Identification Form ‘Agency Information FBI 124-10217-10471 HQ 105-114543-1, 2 Document Information FBI SAC, SJ DIRECTOR, FBI 09/24/1962 22 JURE, MEETINGS, PR, LEADERSHIP, DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 04/21/1998 INDEFINITE INC 2 LHM, S/S, MEMO 5/21/201
cr ‘Comonacie FORM NO. 10 rn ie . Berane os . CO nabr. o t s 7 . - . . ace STA; TES aan ‘NMENT © a < a ee o “Memorandum ee - po, to Me "DIRECTOR, FBI a, ; Fora, ‘REVOLUCIONARIA CUBANA I re RELY ee Revolutionary Board ) Cl REL Ee JURE . ae atid “INTERNAL SECURITY .- CUBA: TOPAL\5 SS Enclosed herewith are 9 copies of a letter- head memorandum to the Bureau along with its. associated memorandum of evaluation with ‘One copy: for ‘information - ‘to Chicago, Miami, New York, and WFO in view of. thé oS indication that delegates of the JURE meeting in Fonees a } Puerto Rico, were traveling: from their divisions. oe - | cl — Copies of the letterhead memorandum are ‘being “furnished locally to ONLI, INTC, : osI, and’ INS. - Informants utilized in the. “Letterhead memoran~ | dum - are as follows: | oo, _ a fe _ ABI P-L-is JULIAN H. GALLO, Pst Be MAgg 1-2 1s4JERONIMO ESTEVE, JR, Fae u) a a 8 T-3 is MARIANO ROCA, - PSI we | 4 85 tl, 4s|ANGEL GOMEZ MENENDEZ (Protect by Request) i fe - _A Cub exile employed by Sears &. Robuck ie i ‘ \ — : ‘and Company | aie Ponce, Puerto Rico. | ; ( fBBureau (ancrosuses a8){R8) a . \. *F-Chicago’ (Enclosures : 2 Info) (RM) “4 hie a “1-Miami (Enclosures 2) (into) Ga - 4 PE ". 1-New York (Enclosures nfs) GRaty, sit) . SPOR OM: oe pe \ oo, 7 2 WO. (Enclosures 2 (Int o) (RM - 2 fo 4 pi) =. 3-S8an Juan (105-6242). yy Fo ee pee | ~ 1-109-44 © yeh f fA. 144543 —]. | be 7. CALL INFORMATION: CONTAIN gk ort sa So pp a eRe (S UNCLASSIFIED Hee e us & 6 SEP. 26 1962 ee iy Y. |! re) I Z «ah . - re a i & “Ve , 7 : | i fe a2 “Copy. to: CIK/Stie ROG) / LIA - - . * ~ONI/OSI/ACSI: en by -routing Sip for info, 118 ise on g Pee Laind. sinetee Ea Fondly CLtyacd i \ ‘ | Docld: 32296695 Page 2?
San Juan and works for the Caribe Lumber Company as an Accountant. 24, | 7 — ; | ———— ele ee PN a7 at 2! ae ; “J aad y - a oo, . “a me 4" ( N a | / | / SJ 105-6242 L | SJ°P-5 1s JOSE MIGUEL PORTELA (Protect by Va _ Request) A Cuban exile who resides in ~f San Juan will conftinue to follow and report ra the activities of the JURE. @ | \ | \ : ' f I ft . | | , \ eo | \ ‘ \ rn . . LA i: so = ee wee te be ees see i ‘ DocId: 32296695 Page | 3
| 3 fog. - Lo . : 7 . . 7) UN.&D STATES DEPARTMENT or STICE ; 2 rs FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer to POST OFFICE BOX 4312 Bile Noo SAN JUAN 21, PUERTO RICO SEP 241962 - | f _ HEAD OF gona REVOLUCTONAREA CUBANA ial aA TIAL Cuban Revolutionary Board) ( JURE ) INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA { MANLLEL £K aA—~ Tae September 4, 1962, issue of the San Juan Star, ~~g daily English language newspaper, carried an article entitled "Cuban Exiles to Meet Here," dateline, Ponce, Puerto Rico, which indicated that a new organization headed “py MANOLOARAY, a Cuban exile leader, residing and working in San Judn, Puerto Rico, was to be formed at meetings | to be held on September’ 15 - 16, 1962, at Juana Diaz and © Ponce, Puerto Rico. It.was indicated that the meeting on. September 15, 1962, at Juana Diaz would be secret and the meeting on September 16, 1962, at Ponce, Puerto Rico, would be public. The name of this new organization was to be the Junta Revolucionaria. Cubana (Cuban Revolutionary Board)(JURE). It was further indicated that about 113 Cubans were expected to attend these meetings and that they would come from New York, Miami, Chicago, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panama, and the remainder from Puerto Rico. On September 4, 1962, SJ T-1, a Cuban exile residing in Puerto Rico, who is well acquainted in the Cuban colony here, advised that the above-article was a result of the efforts of MANOLO RAY, formerly a Cuban exile leader, who was using the présent crises concerning Cuba being supplied with Soviet arms in an attéinpt-to-regain the political prestige he once held among the Cuban exiles. None of the Cuban exile leaders are expected to attend this meeting as they have no confidence in MANOLO RAY or his ideas concerning Cuba.de On September 4, 1962, SJ T-2, who is a leading Cuban exile leader, residing in Puerto Rico, furnished essentially - the same information as SJ T-1, and in addition, stated he had been asked to attend the above-described meeting but had declined. He heard that possibly a few Cuban exiles planned to attend this meeting but the 113 Cubans mentioned’in the article as the number expected to attend, was strictly a ~~ propaganda statement by MANOLO RAY and- designed to add an . ‘atmosphere of urgency and importance to the meeting. SJ T-2 & stated that Cuban exilés in Puerto Rico placed no confidence a in. the statements made by MANOLO RAY, especially concerning ef AI GF ; . expe ade Classiied DY" ae a se, ; SST 5 HEREIN |S UNCLASSIFIED . ALL roRMarion cowie ™Pt2ed contacts in Npspinstony 45s an officials of p uy | Docld: 32296695 Page 4