JFK Assassination System Date: 6/5/2015 Identification Form ; Agency Information ' AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10291-10209 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: 97-4546-3RD NR 3 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: SAC, SJ TO: DIRECTOR, FBI * TITLE : DATE: 09/11/1962 PAGES: 5 SUBJECTS : MR, ASSOC, JURE, ACA, EXILE LEADERS, MEETING DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 06/11/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : INC LHM i v9.1 3 DoclId: 32307069 Page 1
2 cro rm ita. ; . 7 : - ~ 7 oe : - ~ 2 ‘0 UNITED 5 STATES OG™ERNMENT . es _ ea | ; " Be oC} ne Po, petiss:, Memorandum” To oe » DIRECTOR, FBI (1095584), a ae DATE: SEP} jygu | ar Saou” : a SAN JUAN (10944) (ey gee, (4d) . a? mY . ae . LPo ; ; ; . ee suRjECT: CANTI-FIDEL CASTRO ACTIVITIES . _ a 2a Ds - INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA _- 7 oy Cae oO Enclosed herewith are nine copiés of: a letterhead - 0 4 memorandum and its associated memorandum of evaluation to the  - ~ 7 a Bureau and one copy each for information to Chicago, Miami. and | at New York,. in view of ‘their interest in Cuban matters o ; ee |. at , Copies of this letterhead memorandum are being furnished te ; Ay tocalty %o OSI, ONI and INTC ee his letterhead memorandum is ‘being classified | =“ GONFIDENTTAL! as it contains information received from confidential ° » yinformants of continuing value, the unauthorized. Gisclosure of. o/awhich could jeopardize their future effectiveness, é ~ The sources utilized in this memorandum are as seins a ag ad ic SJ T-1 is JULIAN H, GALLO, BSI . ok | SJ T-2 ts JERONIMO ESTEVE,. JR og PSI YY SJ Te-3 is MARTANO ROCA, PSI Ku. , san Juan will continue to f, Low and report pebtinent of. Pectivities regarding the. scheduled eting of the se 2) - Bureau’ (109-58l1)( Rneis. 18 4 1 - Chicago (105-6033) Info, (Encls, 2) | oe a 1 - Mami erate pnfo » (Encls, 2) me eee a 1 - New York~ -35253) Info, (Enels, 2) ed? ALL INFORMATION cONTANTED = oe Ushi £0 LS. (O09, . Pe NEREINS i SE ine nie eS * eo a “ao. ie # cod ates Copy to to! CU! State scneso oe/pansh a “ ontyosi/zest/ oo b outin slip for info “oe areeoess ; 2 oa | Beedle. clecaensess ont Leet en eae in ORIGINAL FIED fy’ \ “A : — DoclId: 32307069 Page 2?
ANTI-FIDEL CASTRO ACTIVITIES " Maraboto said members planned to rendezvous at an undisclosed location on the countryside between Ponce and Juana Diaz. "tts vesembles “rural Cuba,? he said. " Names of the underground will remain anonymous." According to the July 24, 1962, issue of the San Juan Star, which carried an article concerning, the JURE, it [ was indicated that Manolo Ray, former president of the Exile Popular Revolutionary Movement, (PRM), a Cuban Exile Movement, said in an interview that all "Popular" political factions outside Cuba would be accommodated in a new Junta Revolucionarla (JURE) in an effort to restore the splintered movement into / an effective working organization. oe Ray added that the Movement would be financed almost ! entirely by Cubans. He stated, "we can win with our own ‘resources if we have the will to do so," and "people who don't believe that Cubans can win without United States aid should not join us." Ge. (ur) | 7 Jon September 4, 1962, SJ tala 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 present crisis concerning Cuba being supplied with Soviet arms in an attempt 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. (on September 4, 1962, SJ T-2, who is a leading Cuban i 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 74 propaganda statement by Manolo Ray and designed to add an ; atmosphere of urgency and importance to the meeting. SJ 1-2 JG | stated that Cuban exiles in Puerto Rico placed no_confidenc in the statements made by Manolo Ray, especially concerning his implied contacts in Washington, D. C., with officials of: —- / DoclId: 32307069 Page 3
an Nee Ce ANTI-FIDEL CASTRO ACTIVITIES the United States Government and claims of leadership and backing of the Cub exiles. ‘¢ } , i e [33 0 -Bfps ected complete failure of this planned meeting, but stated he felt that Manolo Ray and his followers would continue in their efforts to win the Cuban exiles by trickery and false propaganda efforts. ‘.: / advised on May 8, 1962,/that Manolo Ray had practically no following in Puerto RiCo or the United States and that the Cuban exiles considered him to be, politically speaking, left of center. He explained that although Manolo Ray is not a communist, he advocated most of the ideas put in practice by YH [ss T-3, a 96241 exile leader residing in Puerto Rico, _ Fidel Castro of Cuba. stated that this meeting had been in the planning stage for the last month or so and that it appeared to have been time its_propaganda effect my. the Cuban exiles in Puerto Rico@SJ T-3 (stated that he felt 1f 30 people actually attended , the meeting Would be considered a success. (S3 sthowontes the above-described meeting of the JURE, tT. e Docld: 32307069 Page 4