404-10179-10100 co a coeeering PROCESSING ACCOM ACTION PUSHED OWL QUALSFIED WLALQUARTERS DESH CAR HOGE INDERIRG S847 Operational/ Report by AMSTRUP-1 ACTION REQUIRLD REFERENCES on Manolo RAY Rivero Action Required: FYI Reference: HBRA~10034, 21 November 1962 “4. Attached herewith is a XEROX copy of the original handwritten report by AMSTRUT<-1 on an interview which she held with Manolo RAY Rivero, A translation of the report is also included in attachment. 2. The original report was forwarded to WAVE by reference. ¢ END OF DISPATCH! RE iN “Bolgrouna Use Not Repro oY Distribution: ? - Gyutn oistt. = poanffhor © 1 - COS Rio w/att._ 4, gip/pe? QO f—_ 2ABP2 CATE WWD 17 Dec, 196: DTEPATOM SvREno, AND Uae R UPGA-6993 see Oe ew oo 201-316646 20L-2592993
14-00000 COUNTRY CURA SUBJECT: Politicn ‘ 1. As soon as I arrived at the Hotel Conelia in San Juan, P.Re, I received a visit from ‘'anolo PAY. The visit lasted 3 hours, The conversatian was lonp and dealt vith Cuban matters as well as the affeirg of the allied, western nations led by the United States of America. .He shewed hie admiration and syapathy tovardse the person and.the politics of the younp [resident. FAY considers the removal of the missiles from Cuba a creat victory over Moscow and a3 a halt to the communist advance under the hypocritical proparanda of peace. 2. With specific reference to that which pertains to Cuba, he feels that thanks to the "firm, enerpetic, and realietic® position of the President, the United States has lent a preat service to the Cuban cause. 3. About the expected invasion which he sau core near, he could. not, like all Cubans, refrain from "supportine it and be nlad of it," and he says, even when said invasion fell throupl: beacause of realistic, political compromises of the President; the U.S. has rade it pessible for world opinien to realize what Tidal CASTRO representa today. CASTRO ia nothing more than a puppet of the Kremlin who has hanced over his country completely to Pussia. As for the opinion within Cuba, RAY believes it to be “highly productive,” since those whe could still poasibly be in deubts have been riven the opportunity, thanks to the emergetic American position, to learn the whole truth cf the situation, Thus, it terminated the myth created in Cuba by PIDEL that Pussia would ° go to war in defense ef his revolution. _&, As for the position of PAY toward the "Company", he is interested _ dn getting along well with that orranigaticn. He told mez: . "What does one gain by having a: controversy with them? That does net solve any preblem, and this haa always been wy-opinion, from the berinning of the fight. So such so, he continued, that he has been interviewed by all the agents sent to him by that orranization, and “YF pave the preef. when I had just left the "inistry of Public works over there { bout June er July of °60. TI was then interviewed in Havana by a [Pre NeEL] Cone of your agents) at his request. Wy rood Intention was so Clear that despite the fact that I would have preferred to see him at a place of ny own choosing, because I knew the surveillance they had on re, I apreed ‘te ro “to his house, an extrecely canjserous thing in those davs for an ex-HMinister of the Revoluticnary Covernrent. . & Age for the pesition of the "JUSI®, he savs he has always shown (and it can be verified ty all tte ravezines and In statenents of the press) that, {ft colicitr and neecs the help of the free world ard, eepectally of the Arerican “leader® nation. This help js asked cf persons, institutions, and of me ce me 20 LEO GS a Py Wtf Le Ofc fr errs 4p
14-00000 6. Upen my askine him for his opinicn on putcing Pardo LLADA in front of a nicrophone talking to Cuba, he locked at me in surprise. Later, smiling, he said, "It would certainiy do TIDEL a preat deal of harm.” 7. Qn the 30th of April, at the wedding of Ima CASTFO, I notified RAY, with preat caution (because the f=-2 did not take ite eyes off us for a moment) that FIDEL already had the proofs that RAY, Faustino PEREZ, and David SALVADOR were consriring. They were piving them enouph repe in order to catch them more easily. “They will not have the nerve,* PAY answered me. "They have the nerve for everything and don't forget that ever," was my reply. I ap citing this conversation in order to show you the vigilance that already existed in those days on Manolo RAY. ood 8. ‘Y¥ learned that they already had said proofs, throurh an intimate girl friend of Raul CASTRO whom I had known from the berinning of the | Revolution. It is an interview, that I remember well, but T cannot remember her name. Besides, she shoved me a larre hlack pocketbock fn which she was carrying the docurentarv proof. I understood then that it was the G-?, I did not see her again after that date. me et eon Tee ere so
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