REPORT COVER SHEET: AMDOG-1 RECEIVED THE INFORMATION FROM MANUEL RAY RIVERO AND JOSE RICARDO RABEL NUNEZ; AMDOG WAS ABOARD THE VENUS.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: JMWAVE
Document date: 08/13/1965
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Source:

ANTOD-1 from ANDOG-1, 11 July 1965.

AMDOG1 recelved

the information from Manuel RAY Rivero and Jose Ricardo RABEL

Nunez; AMDOG-I was aboard the VENUS.

Flold Commonts I and 2 are from the same reports cited in comment 1.

Thore is no record at JMAVE as to when,

exactly, Varela resigned

from the JUre.

Fleld Comment 3 19 from UFG 7443.

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*RABEL Nunez, Jose Ricardo - captain of VENUS, JURE vessel:

Commandeered vessol Aug 65.

Apparent

spilt with Manuel Ray.

#VARELA Castro, Manuel - Former military chiof of JURE.

Resignod after difforences with Minuel Ray (date and details

not reported).

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FIELD INFORMATION REPORT

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SUBJECT 1, "Arrival 1n Mlanl of the VENUS,

JURE Boat, from the Dominican DATE OF REPORT

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NO. PAGES

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Dissension Tithin the dURE

13 Auguat 1965

REFERENCES

9. to 11 August 1965

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INFO

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DATE ACQ (I] August 1965)

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UG 7458

SOURCE: A young Cuban emigro sho has boen frained in information coller-

tloD.

Illa past reporting has been accurate but lacks depth.

The Information in this report was received from another Cuban

onigre who is in touch with membere of the JURE.

Le spoke

with Jose Ricardo Rabel Nunes and with Manuel Ray Rivero.

1.. The VENUS, a. 110-100t boat which le used as a nother ship by

tho Junta

Revolucionaria Cubana (JURE, Cuban

Revolutionary

Juntal, arrived in Miami from the Doninican Republic on the

morning of 9 August 1965.

Two Boston Whalers, with motore,

wore aboard. The purpose of the trip is to have the engines

of all three ropaired.

The cost of the repaire 1e estimated

to be $1,000 (U.S.).

On Il August the VEVUS was docked in

Diacayne Bay at Blocayne Boulovard and N.". Fifth Street, loft

of the entrance to the non Dodgo Island Seaport.

Malers vere at Heres Boat Company, 412 N.". North River Drive.

The VENUS is painted gray, and flies the Panamanian flag.

Ter

is a new radar aboard the

VENUS, and Improvemente have been

mado in the interior.

2 Te following men arrived aboard the boat:

Jose Ricardo Rabel Nunez, commanding officor

JOBe HIguel RABOS:

socond officer

Gilborto Enidio Fundura Alcazar, third officer

Maximo Delgado Frono ta

Ricardo Tao la Cubo

Ignacio Castro .

Hubor Matos Araluce

Pablo Fornandes Porez

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3.

Rivoro.

leader of the JUrE, arrived in Miami by

to return to

Puerto Rico the sane day..

The purpose of bia visit was to

make an effort to reach an understanding with the men who

arrived on the VENUS.. According to Ray, he bad given Rabel

$720

(U.S.) for expenses of the boat, but instead Babel had

used the money to cose lo Miami.

Ray conaldered this use of

JURE funds an act of treason.

Ray bold a meeting at the JURE

office to discuas what steps

should be taken about Babel's

actlom. The following meg attended the meting:

Osorio Davila Santana

GerminaT Kivas

Alfredo Perez Allan

Lorenzo Luit

Two otber nen,

label said that by bringing the boats to Miant be bad demonstrated

to Ray tbat ho (Rabel) was in complete command of the boats.

He expressed his deflance of any effort on Ray'a part to board

the vessel.

ke added that be could not come to an agreement

with Ray becauso of the latter's cowardice; that Ray had been

collecting monay and fooling the Cuban people for three years.

B. Since bla arrival in Miant, Rabel has violted Manuel Varela

Chatro,? former military chiot of the JURE who realgned alter

differences with Ray.

Ravol plans to solfelt money in Miant to carry on the struggle

against fidel Castro Rus.

lie sald that Antonio Imbert Barrera,

head of the Loyalfst Porces In the Dominican Republic, has

promieed to help 1a the strusg.®.

Ftold Comments:

TDCSDB-315/00238-65 dated 27 January 1965, and TDCSDB-

1• 315/00539-65 dated 1G February, both fron

the same source,

roported Rabel's plans to commandeer the VENUS and the two

Whalers.

2. Varela was involved in Rabol's plans to commandeer the boate..

3. The sano source reported in July that the Imbert government

had confiscated the weapons

which were aboard the VENUS.

Ray sald that regardloss of who von the struggle for power

in the Dominican Republic,

the weapons would be returned to

JURE becauSe JURE way on good terms with both sides of the

confliet.

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