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

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch60538 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10179-10017                         ease under the John F.   y
ssassination Records Collection Act of
992 (44 USC 2107 Note). Case#t:NW
21 November 1960
CORTACT RSPCAT
mWWTs     Meeting with Manual RAY, 15 Norember 1960, at a Motel                   Use O
in Romesteed, Florida                                                Reproduce
'             1. The meeting vas held in the above-named place because, at that
particular time, kanvol Ray was still ander wraps and ae did not want
to tate any chances of having hit spotted in 5iami. Manuel Rey and his
wife had been driven from Tampa by 'Ray Adsans  (Ray Dubois) to the above-
named motels I bad previously called Ray on the telephone from Em York
at his Tampa residence and told him that I would meet bim an 15 November.
The meeting began at 2100 hours and lasted until about 0130 the next day.
2. Tbe highlights of this moting vere reported in MASS-1696, 17
November, copy of vhieb is attached. The following paragraphs are in
elaboration of this nessage.
5. Daring this first meeting, si intet vas to establish rapport,
probe into Rayls-political tbicking, and, by reiterating previously made
statements on the Bender group's willingness- to support the 10RP, to
establish the Bender group as a private contacto dafinitivo for anti-
Castro aetivities. In line with this, I kept the    it     puposely
as an exchsnge of views` session, avoiding any controversy, but at
the sass time, indicating some surprise and seo  bevildersent over soe
of Ray's statements.
4. Throughout the convereation, Fay clearly stressed his great
belief in civil liberties, individual freedom, and.hie position as a
Cuban, and also hemispherie, nationalist. On a number of occasiee, be
-      stressed the point that most likely some of the solutions he proposed
for the post-Castro period,' might be viewed by me with sne misg~viags.
Don't you believe, he asked, that what is important to the eecms `of       `
Il. S. is not necessaeily important to the econcqg of Cubat Don't.yoi
think that the American brand of democracy, which wurks edmirably-Sa
your country, is not nmeesarily applicable in its totality in Cubal
5. 1hy reiterated, on a number of oecasioas, that be vnted to go
back to 1 January 1959. Be vas quite fire ...as, reported. IS.the abm, s.
mentioned cable -- on the need of the nationaliatia  of pmb).ie  tilities ` ;
rbea asked about the agrarian reform and, in this' eipeetin, what- onld
happen to Castro-seized Ariaan-ranches, he said tmat' Laud distribution
and ownership by individual firms of land so parcelled out, would be a
goal of his governments the criteria an whether or not Amerigan-oused
ranebes would be returned to their owners, ware currently' being worked

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