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104-10180-10093 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/16/1965)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch75350 and id is 1 raw text is: 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992


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                                        16 January 1965




MEMORANDUM FOR:  Mr. John H. Crimmina
                 Coordinator of Cuban Affairs

SUBJECT:         Arms Shipment for Ray


     The following message has been received through our
channeli from Santo Domingo:

         I conveyed points enumerated in Section B of
     Reftel to Reid and Caceres Jan 14.  reid indicated
     some of what I told him confirmed information already
     communicated to him by Ray.  Reid fully understood
     that if he went ahead with transaction, it would be
     at his own risk and U.S. position, if origin became
     public, would have be that thie normal export to
     GODR.

         Reid did not repeat not ask us to deny export
     license, evidently preferring to investigate matter
     further before making his decision. His primary
     concern is whether onward shipment to Venezuela has
     approval Venezuelan Govt. He said in absence diplo-
     matic relations this difficult ascertain. He lacked
     sufficient confidence in Venezuelan Consul General
     here or in his own in Venezuela to use them as
     channels. After I discouraged him from expecting
     us to ascertain attitude Venezuelan Government for
     hip, he indicated he would probably ask his Ambassador
     in Washington to sound out his Venezuelan colleague
     there.

        Reid's concern about assuring onward shipment
    stems largely frocm his great respect for lethal
    qualities of weapons involved and fear they might
    find way into wrong hands here.  He said he would
    not allow them to be uncrated here or broken down
    into packs of sixty each which he Indicated was form
    in which they would be shipped eventually to Cuba.


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