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104-10271-10145 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/21/1960)

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                                                                                 I1 November 1960



                        CWTACT  FWCW

                        UBECTs )weaia with kanel RAY, 15 November 1960, at a motel
                                   in Ichested,  Florida



                             1.  The  meting  vas bold in the aboveanamd   plat  bCaue,   at that
                               p8WiC1A    tmO  warns Ia ustill  *adr   vapdo  and we di  not Vaut
                        to  tae  any conc    of   yifl bin sOatned  in vaiis1. Manuel Ry  and his
                        t aee     driven fron Tam   by mRa Ad     (riy Dibois) to the above-
                        named teel I bad prevomly caled Y on the telephone from Bev lok
                        am   bd Tamps   radevice a  tol  i   that  I vold  meet hin on 15 November.

                        Te   meeting besdn at 2100 hors    a  lasted uil   about 0130 tbe Deit day.

                              2.  The bigblhs    of tbis inatitg  were reportol t   AS HL694,i 1
                        Vovember,'copy  of which Is attatbOil, The  followingt Paragraphsl are in
                        elaboration  of tbhi sessade.

                           *3. DurngS this first seeting, my intent wms to etabliah rapport,
                         probe Into Ray's political  thinkin';- anVd. by reiterating previousl.y made
                         statements on the Bender  group's  illi      acS to apprt the for?, to
                         establisb the Beander group as a private cntacto   efinitivo fr  anti-
                         Castro aetiviti***   In line vith this, any nca        ticontr   ros
                         n  an *exchange of views  session, avoiding a       uoverment ero
                         tbo   DaM tim  indiCtinl6  soe  surprise and Dow  bewidersent   war  soue
                         of  R ay statements.

                              . . Throuabot   the coversatae,   R~  y clearly stressed his Zreat
                         belief In civil  libert .Ie*, Individual. freedom, and his positionl as a
                         Cuban,  Ano~ also 1.ip~i,           toait       On a nutber of occaion, he
                         stressed the point  that wmt  likely Dowe of the solutions he  prros65
                         for tb  poet.Catro   period, niwht be   viesed b     to ith me eoanoiifte
                         DL.et you believe, .he asked,.tat  what Is Important to the econoy of   te
                         U. S. is not necessarily  important to the                adeoirbmy or Cubl? Don't you
                         think that tb   American brand of deoerocy,  which workali  miably  in
                         your country,  is not necessarily applicable in  its totality In Cubs?

                              S.  Ray reIterated,  on a number.of oceasione,  that be vanted to go
                         back to 1 January  1959.  He va   quite firm o  nas reoort@d I the abre-
                         eationed   cable    on the need of the nationaiatio    of   public utilitdd
                         when asked  about the agrarian. reform and, in  thi chaection, ist   would
                         happen to CAStro-seized  Ueriican ranches, he said that l     n o   distribution
                         .andJ ownei~ship by inViydUal firas of lnd  so parcelled out, wou la be a
                         gol   on his Geriniviutj the criteria o.   hetber or not Amricanowned
                         ranbes  would  ve returned to teir  ownerbewere   currently beinG worked

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