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180-10142-10404 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/3/1978)

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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 PublicWorks  in February 1959.  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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