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DIR INFO CARA CITE LOND 8769 ANDRE ACTING INTEL DYVOUR. SUPDATA SOURCE (SMOTH) TIME FILED 1310Z NOFORN CONTINUED CONTROL OEL-30,995 CUBA SUBJ: STATEMENTS OF MANOLO RAY OOI OCTOBER 1961 PADA ENGLAND LONDON 24 OCTOBER 1961 SOURCE : (OFFICIAL BRITISH SERVICE) FROM "SOURCE WITH GOOD CONTACTS AMONG EXILES IN CARACAS".

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SECRET COUNTRY : CUBA CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY NOFORM/CONTINUED CONTROL REPORT NO. : TDCS -3/490,978 SUBJECT : STATEMENTS OF MANOLA RAY, EXILE LEADER DATE DISTR. : 24 OCTOBER 1961 OF THE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT PRECEDENCE : ROUTINE DATE OF INFO : OCTOBER 1961 REFERENCES: D11257 PLACE & DATE ACQL: ENGLAND, LONDON (24 OCTOBER 1961) APPRAISAL : 3 FIELD REPORT NO. : OEL-30,995 SOURCE : (OFFICIAL BRITISH SERVICE ) FROM "SOURCE WITH GOOD CONTACTS AMONG EXILES IN CARACAS".

  1. MANOLO RAY, EXILE LEADER OF MOVIMIENTO REVOLUCIONARIO DEL PUEBLO (MRP - PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT) SAID IN ..... EARLY OCTOBER THAT HE WAS FIRMLY OPPOSED TO ANY INVASION OF CUBA, 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 OPPOSED 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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  1. 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.

  2. THE GENERAL ATTITUDE OF THE RESISTANCE IN CUBA TOWARDS THE EXILES WAS ONE OF INDIFFERENCE MOUNTING TO CONTEMPT FOR SPECIFIC 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 COMMUNICATION EXPERTS.

  3. 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 DE DANGEROUS AND COULD DEVELOP INTO A. CIVIL WAR.

  4. FIELD DISSEM: STATE. CINCLANT, CINCARIB.

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