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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK Assassination System Identification Form

Date: 6/5/2015.

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10291-10236

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 97-4546-9

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: CIA

FROM: CIA

TO:

TITLE:

DATE: 10/24/1961

PAGES: 2

SUBJECTS: MR, MOVIMIENTO REVOLUCIONARIO DEL PUEBLO, ACA, INTERNAL RESISTANCE

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/11/1998

OPENING CRITERIA : APPROVAL OF CIA

COMMENTS:

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TELEGRAM I FORMATION RE ORT TELEGRAM

A CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

This material contains Information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.

CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS

SECRET (When Filled. In) NOFORN/CONTINUED CONTROL

COUNTRY CUBA

SUBJECT STATEMENTS OF MANOLA RAY, EXILE LEADSOM OF THE PEOPLE'S REVOLLETNEHOVETROM

DATE OF INFO. OCTOBER 1961 OCT 25 1961 CIA SJP

PLACE & DATE ACO. BENGLAND, LONDON (24 OCTOBER 1961) APPRAISAL 3

ALL FBI INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 5-12-94 SP8 MAC

REPORT NO. TDCS -3/490,978

DATE DISTR. 24 OCTOBER 1961

PRECEDENCE ROUTINE

REFERENCES

FIELD REPORT NO. OEL-30,995

THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE, APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE SOURCE/5OFFICIAL BRITISH SERVICE FROM SOURCE WITH GOOD CONTACTS AMONG EXILES IN CARACAS"

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 LINSISTING THAT CASTRO'S OVERTHROW WAS TO BE ACHIEVED BY INTERNAL RESISTANCE AND THIS HAD ALREADY STARTED.

  1. 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 REC- 46 97-4546-0

CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS NOFORN/CONTINUED CONTROL

SECRET STATE ARMY/ACSI NAVY AIR JCS SECDEF I&NS TREASURY REPC INCLANT OCT 31 1961 NSANIC USIA OCI ONE OCR CORREDOO EXO FBI

TELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAM

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CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS SECRET NOFORN/CONTINUED CONTROL26 AN SI HAD AGAINST BATISTA. REC'D DOM INTELL DIV.

TDCS -3/490,978 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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. FIELD DISSEM: STATE. CINCLANT, CINCARIB. SECRET LUISECRET END OF MESSAGE CLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION CONTROLS NOFORN/CONTINUED CONTROL

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