EXILE RAY'S PLAN FOR FREE CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600420010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 24, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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By VIRGINIA PREWETT
North American Newspaper Alliance
Exile. Leader Manolo Ray
Cubans Mere
Feared Him
MANOLO. RAY, a leader in the
Cuban exiles' battle to dump
Castro, is a controversial figure
who wasn't always the herq he'
is todau.,In this article, written
Oct. 26, 1962, the author tells of
exiles grouvs that feared Ray
and warned, President Kennedy
rzbn,lt him.'
WASHINGTON - On Oct. 25; eight
uban underground organizations claiming
00 exiles in the United States sent Pres-
ent Kennedy a telegram from Miami
warning" him they will not accept just
fly government imposed by the United
tales if Castro is overthrown:
Fear that Manolo 'Ray is Washington's
hoice to lead a U.S.-backed uprising and
ead a provisional government. prompted
ie telegram, exile leaders told NANA.
Ray is feared because he is the protege
f Gov. Luis Munoz Marin, of Puerto Rico
nd the favorite of. the most leftist ad-
isers around President Kennedy. After
ennedy became president in 1961, the U.S.
overnment forced the U.S.-backed Cuban
evolutionary Council to accept Ray as a
ember. He has since left it.
Formerly,the U.S. leader of, an organ-
ization called the Revolutionary Movement
of the People (MRP). Ray is said by
Cuban exiles to. represent what they call
"Fidelismo Without
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By VIRGINIA PREWETT
North American New6VaPer Alliance
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put Fidel Castro on trial for, his life
if he catches him alive.
The charge will be 'Crimes Against Cuba."
Ray is the 39-year-old exile leader who aims
o 'overthrow the Communist regime.
A spokesman for 'Ray, in outlining his pro-
rani for- the future of Cuba, said that only'
op figures In the Castro government, and in.
he former Batista, government, will be placed
in trial. He said lower-rank officials and army
fficers under Batista would be welcomed in
he fight on Castro and the building of a new
uba.
He said Ray's organization, the Junta Revo-
ucionario de Cuba (JUKE), aims to set up a
caretaker government for 18 months after Cas-
tro is toppled. Preparations would be made for
a national election. Ray might leave the care-
taker regime to campaign for office in the
election, the spokesman said.
The JURE official said that, once free, Cuba
will break relations with the Soviet bloc and
outlaw the Communist Party and any other to-
talitarian group.
He said Ray would summon representatives
of Cuba's capital and labor and ask them to col-
laborate in a "national democratic reconstruc-
tion plan," similar to what Jean Monet did in
France after its liberation from the Nazis.
Ray would restore to both Cuban and for-
eign owners property taken from them by
Castro, he said. Where property has vanished
- a herd of cattle slaughtered and eaten, for
example - the regime would have to "con-
sider compensation_ in the light of its re-
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1962 by uniting -six, groups of militant Cuban
the majority.
Ray was a member of the U. S.-sponsored
Cuban Revolutionary Council at the time of
the Bay of Pigs attack,>but charged that the
CIA? did not permit him to alert his under-
ground. This group later broke away from his
leadership. He ' formed JURE in September
ei into a small landowner. Many of the state-
owned cooperatives created by Castro will be-
come producer cooperatives owned by the men
working them.
The state will intervene in the economy
only "when the efforts of private enterprise
are inadequate or when an industry Is so im-
portantthat it must be a monopoly."
"For example," said the JURE informant,
"small-power companies would go broke in
Cuba. Electric power must: be a monopoly."
Foreign capital will be invited to ret aen to
Cuba, "with. ample guarantees against expro-
priation. If the investors from several coun-,
tries want to come to Cnba, we'll give priority
to the nationality that (has the least stake al-
ready invested:"
The Ray organization believes that when
constitutionality is restored to Cuba, Cuban
cabinets should include representatives of the
most important minority parties, as well as. of
Private property and free enterprise, "that
serve society" will be the cornerstone. of the
new society, according to JURE.
Agrarian reform ' will be pushed. The ap-
proavh will be to make the peasant landwork-
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