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180-10143-10455 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/3/1978)

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              leader, Manuel Ray Rivero was described as  softspoken and c C

              unassuming, a person of highest intellect, sincerity and       t

              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

              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 militry-cale  o

              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.   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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