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DATE: 10/24/1961

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SUBJECTS :

MR, MOVIMIENTO REVOLUCIONARIO DEL PUEBLO, ACA,

INTERNAL RESISTANCE

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

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contains Information affecting: the National Defense of the United

-793 and. 794.

continsmission from velation of which on any emanner to the Unitedorized esthin bromaid by athe

of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S:C.

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ALL FBI INFORMATION CONTAINED

ACAtiNS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE 0-12-982

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REPORT NO.

TDCS 3/490,978

24 OCTOBER

1961

50.

STATEMENTS OF MANOLA RAY, EXILE LEADSION

OF THE PEOPLE'S REVOLE CEIVEDEEN

OCT 2 5 1961

CIA SJP

DATE DISTR.

PRECEDENCE

ROUTINE

DATE: OF

INFO.

*PLACE &

: DATE ACO.

APPRAISAL

OCTOBER 1961

ENGLAND, LONDON (24 OCTOBER 19611)

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FIELD REPORT NO. OEL-30,995₽g

XCEP, -18-97

SLD/KSR: -2-98

THIS: IS UNEVALUATEDINFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTS!

SOURCE

OFFICIAL BRITISH SERVICEJEROM "SOURCE WITH GOOD CONTACTS AMONG EXILES

HIN CARACAS"

MANOLO RAY, EXILE LEADER OF MOVIMIENTO REVOLUCIONARIO

DEL PUEBLO (MRP - PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT SAID. UN

EARLY OCTOBER THAT HE WAS FIRMLY OPPOSED TO ANY INVASION OF CUBAN

DECLASSIFICATION AI

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION

IN THIS DOCUMENT,

INSISTING THAT CASTRO'S OVERTHROW WAS TO BE ACHIEVED BY INTERNAL

RESISTANCE AND THIS HAD ALREADY STARTED.

2. THE MRP WAS ORGANIZED THROUGHOUT THE ISLAND AND SUPPORTED

BY ALL CLASSES OF THE POPULATION. IT HAD MEMBERS IN ALL 33

TRADE UNIONS, THE G-2, MILITIA AND THROUGHOUT THE ADMINISTRATION.

RAY ESTIMATED 80 PERCENT OF POPULATION WERE OFPOSED TO CASTRO,

THOUGH MAJORITY WERE NOT ACTIVELY SO, HE CONSIDERED THE MRP AT

PRESENT ENJOYED MORE SUPPORT THAN THE ORIGINAL REVOLUTION HAD

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HAD AGAINST BATISTA

3. THE MRP WAS PRESENTLY: SHORT OF ARMS AND EXPLOSIVES BUT THE

POSITION WAS IMPROVING (A MILITIA CAPTAIN WAS RECENTLY

SENTENCED TO 30 YEARS IN PRISON FOR PASSING ARMS TO. THE MRP

NO HELP. WHATSOEVER HAD BEEN RECEIVED BY THE INTERNAL RESISTANCE

FROM THE "SOURCES. IN THE UNITED STATES, WHO PROVIDED SUPPORT

FOR THE INVASION". THESE SOURCES WERE STILL THINKING

INEFFECTUALLY: IN TERMS OF A FURTHER INVASION.

40 THE GENERAL ATTITUDE OF THE RESISTANCE IN CUBA TOWARDS

THE EXILES WAS ONE OF INDIFFERENCE MOUNTING TO CONTEMPT FOR

SPECIFIE MOVES SUCH AS THE .

PROPOSED PROMOTION OF A CUBAN GOVT

IN EXILE: WHAT THE RESISTANCE WANTED WAS FUNDS. AND THE RETURN,

BY INFILTRATION, OF TRAINED EXILES, PARTICULARLY COMMUNIÇATION

EXPERTS.

5.. ON THE TIMING OF CASTRO'S OVERTHROW, RAY SAID CASTRO WOULD

NOT LAST ANOTHER YEAR. HE ADDED THAT THE SITUATION IN CUBA

IMMEDIATELY AFTER CASTRO'S DOWNFALL, WOULD BE DANGEROUS AND COULD

DEVELOP INTO A CIVIL WAR

6. FIELD DISSEM: STATE: CINCLANT, CINCARIB.

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