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104-10179-10017 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/21/1960)

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                                                                            21 November 190



                        ameacts   meetimg vth   wases RAY, 15 November 1960, at a Motel        oun   Useonly
                                  in somesteed, Florida                                   D 0    o   produce



                             1.  The meeting ws held to the above-ased place because, at that
                        partieular tise, Xmel  Ray vas attil ander wraps' and we Old not want
                        to tate any cheness of having his spotted in Edast. Manuel Ray ad his
                        vife had been driven from Tamps by Ray AdwAe (Ray Dubois), to the abore-
                        ae     otell I had previously called Ray on the telephoe  from Rev Tork
                        at his Tamps residence and told him that I vould meet him an 15 November.
                        The meeting began at 2100 hours and lasted until about 0130 the nwM day.

                             2.  The highlihts of this meeting vere reported in MABS-l, 17
                        November, copy of whteh Io attached. The folleving paragrapa are, Io
                        elaboration of this massage.

                             3. During this first meeting, my intent Vas to eastabiihr-Jt
                        probe into Ray'e political thinking, and, by reiterating previous made
                        statements on the eander groupts vilinness to support the WE, to
                        establish the Bender grup as a private contaeto definitive for anti-
                        Castro aetsvities. In 11e with this, I kept   meeting pdfposely
                        as an exchange of views session, avoiding any controversy, but et
                        the sam time, indicating same srrise and acme beilderment over som
                        of Ay's statements.

                            4.  Througbout the conversation, Ra4y clearly stressed his geat
                        belief In civil liberties, individual freedom, and.his position as a
                        Cuban, and also bemispherie, nationalist. O a number of occasicas, he
                        stressed the point that Gaet likely some of the solatiens he proposed -
                        for the post-Castro period, might be viewd by me with same astgvias.
                        Don't you believe, he asked, that vbat Is Iaportat to the 'em.e r the
                        V. 6. Is not necessartly Important to the eeonomy of Cubal Don't yout
                        think that the American brand of democracy, whIch works aditrably Is
                        your country, to not secessarily appliceble In Its totality tn Coal,

                            1,   n  reterated, an a number of eeceaslsos, that he wanted to go
                       beek to 1 January 1959. Be was quite firm ..- as, reported. i the above-
                       mentioned eable - on the need of the nationalisatig of ,pabxic stilitisfif
                       when asked about the agrarian reform and, in this- oetian, what wald
                       happen to Castro-seized Amerian ranebes, he sa tt1iat lad distribution
                       end ownership by individual firms of land so parcelled out, would be a
                       goal of his SoverneentS the criteria an whether or not Ameriqan-eed
                       ranches would be returned to their ouer, were currently being varked

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