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180-10143-10449 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (6/28/1978)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch32571 and id is 1 raw text is: 18O~iO143~1O449 THIS Copy YIs FOR RELEAS E MEMORANDUM - June 28, 1978 TO: G. Robert Blakey FROM: Fonzi & Gonzales RE: Interview with MANOLO RAY RIVERO dob: Juiie 13,1974 Manolo Ray was interviewed on June 7, 1978, in the offices of Ray and Associates, Eg ineering Consultants, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Background file research indicates that Ray received a graduate scholarship from the Cuban Ministry of Public- Works in 1947 to study civil engineering at the University of Utah. He returned to Cuba in 1949 and was appointed a designer for the Cuban National Development Corporation and then chief of its structural department in charge of bridges and highways. In 1952 he became project manager for Frederick Snare Corporation of New York in construction of the Havana Hilton Hotel. In May, 1957, he organi-zed. the Civic Resistance Movement (MRC), an underground organization which supervised acts .of sabetege against the Batista regime. Following the Revolution, Ray was appointed Minister of Public Works by Castro in February, 1959. He officially resigned his position in November, 1959. During the interview, Ray said that he had been active in anti-Castro activity, organizing underground activity in Havana, prior to his resignation as Minister of Public Works. His brother, who reportedly later committed suicide, had been arrested by Castro in March of 1959 for counter- revolutionary activity. Ray said his anti-Castro activity eventually led to his founding the Revolutionary Movement of the People (MRP) around May of 1960. Among those Ray mentioned as .being also instrumental in the founding of the MRP were Rufo Lopez-Fresquet and Rogello Ci sneros. When asked, Ray said there were no Americans involved .in the. founding of the MRP, He said, however, that there was one who.had been active with him in anti-Batista operations and later gave him support for his anti-Castro activities. His name was Ira Wolfe. He was very close to me personally and we considerTed hm like a Cuban, Ray said. At the time, Wolfe was a sales representatite for a kitchen equipment firm and married to a Cuban. After he left Cuba, he was divorced and went to work for what-Ray described as a telephone company-related firm In Texas. He died there about five years ago at about 55 years old. Ray described Wolfe as taill, heavily built, with black hair and a round face. RETURIN TO CIA Background Use Only Do Not -Reproduce CIA HAS NO 081ECT 0*fO DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT AS SANITJZED

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