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180-10142-10404 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/03/1978)

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
DRAFT - 11/3/78
B. Palmer
MANUEL RAY RIVERO
When he first came into prominence as a Cuban exile
leader, Manuel Ray Rivero was described as softspoken and
unassuming, a person of highest intellect, sincerity and
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conviction -- in other words, a natural leader.   In 1947,
the 23-year old Ray was granted a scholarship by the Cuban
Ministry of Public Works to study civil engineering at the
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University of Utah.   Ray was in the United States for two
years before returning to his native Cuba in 1949 and
obtaining various positions in the engineering field, one of
which was project manager for the construction of the
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Havana Hilton Hotel.
Reacting to the excesses of the military rule of
Fulgencio Batista, Ray organized the Civic Resistance Movement
in 1957 and began supervising sabotage and acts of terrorism
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against the government.   His political posture and active
resistance to Batista was recognized by Fidel Castro who,
upon assuming control of the government of Cuba, appointed
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Ray his Minister of Public Works in February 1959.5 Within a
few months of his appointment, Ray confided to two anti-Castro
Cubans that he had recognized the symptoms of Communism in
the Castro regime but was not prepared to conspire against
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El Lider Maximo.
Ray's tenure in Castro's government was short-lived. He
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was relieved of his official position in November 1959.   No

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