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104-10243-10092 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (06/02/1961)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch78145 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10243-10092[  2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
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-  June 1961
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
£UBJECY: Red ations with Manolo RAY and the MEP
1. For background see my memorandum of 14 May :961, reorting on
my long session with .anolo RAY. Rogelio CI5NEROS (Eugenio) and Ernesto
BETANCOURT. As will be noted in that memorandum, Manolo promised to
come up wimC a prospectus witnia approxdmately ten days' time, alter con-
sulting with his leaders in Cuba.
L. On 1 June 1961 Mr. Barnes called me to say that Mr. Goodwin had
been visited by Mr. Ernesto BETANCOURT wao asked for immediate iinancial
support for certain activit les of the MRP which would run around Shi. C',
dollars. Mr. Barnes asked me to contact BETANCOUR T for the pul; ose of
ascertaining what the funds were to be used for, exactly how much needed, etc.
Z called BETANCOURT and he told mne that I should get these details from
CS(EROS (Eugenio). who was staying at room 549 at the  ashin;,ton Hotel.
I called EugenIamnd rade a-dat for me and .ay D B-ki: (Ray Adams is the
name he uses with RD.y and Cisneros) to call upon him. We called on CiNEROS
at approximately 180-houre 1 Jono, and he-infored us chat he had urgeat
need for pesos for use in support of his sabomie and underground activities
in Cuba. lie said. his people were absolutely without funds, needed money for
HW4. exes, -- rka VAMM atin -mrchse of gabotaage ,dipme-t. air lawes fnv
- couriers. and for assisting people co get out of irison. He said that. it- was
now possible for people to buy their way out of prison by bribing one of the
 many - coamunist lawyers and judges. He thought that w. GC. or S,. uNC
would meet immediate needs and that some sort of arrangeznent should be made
to receive funds -- L, 000 monthly or thereabouts - on a fixed and permanent
basis.              -
3. We made no commitment to Eugenio. other than to say that we would
pass his plea along to the interested people. I reminded him that we bad aeked
him sad Manolo to prepare a plan for consideration and that we were still
waiting for that plan. 1 said I personally doubted that anything could be done
-ntil the plan was received from RAY. He -said Manolo was planning to. comic to
Washington on the afternoon of Z June with the plan. but that he himself was
having to return to Miami immediately and it was vital he be able to take the
money with him. arrange in Miami for purchase of the pesos (at rate of : . 1 -

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