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[39]NOFORN CONTINUED CONTROL O€L-30,995 CUBA
[40]SUBJ STATEMENTS Of MANOLO RAY
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[88]mea! MANOLO RAY, EXILE LEADER OF MOVIMIENTO REVOLUCIONARIO
[90]BEL PUEBLO. (MRA = PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT) SAID IN;
[91]EARLY OCTOBER THAT HE WAS FIRMLY OPPOSED TO ANY INVASION OF CUBA,
[92]ANSISTING THAT CASTRO'S OVERTHROW WAS TO CE ACHIEVED BY INTERNAL
[93]RESISTANCE AND THIS HAD ALREADY STARTEO. re an
[94]tiie THE MRP WAS- ORGANIZED THROUGHOUT THE ISLAND AND suPPoRTEO
[95]BY ALL CLASSES OF THE POPULATION. iT HAD MEMBERS IN ALL 33
[96]TRADE UNIONS, THE G2, MILITIA ANO THROUGHOUT THE ADMINISTRATION,
[97]RAY ESTIMATED 80. PERCENT OF POPULATION WERE OfPOSED TO CASTRO,
[99]THOUGH MAJORITY. WERE NOT ACTIVELY $0, HE CONSIDERED THE MRP AT :
[100]_ PRESENT ENJOYED MORE SUPPORT THAN THE ‘ORIGINAL REVOLUTION HAD fi
[102]CUASUIFCATON — BEESEUINATION CONTROLS
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[114]3. THE MRP_WAS PRESENTLY SHORT OF ARMS, AND EXPLOSIVES But THE.
[116]"POSITION WAS IMPROVING. s MILITIA CAPTAIN WAS. RECENTLY -
[118]SENTENCED TO 30 YEARS PRISON FOR PASSING ARMS TO THE mo), a
[120]| NO HELP WHATSOEVER HAD BEEN RECEIVEO BY THE INTERNAL RESISTANCE
[122]FROM THE "SOURCES IN THE UNITED STATES, wrtO PROVIDED SUPPORT « a
[124]_ FOR THE ANVASION" « THESE- ‘SOURCES WERE STILL THINKING | a
[125], INEFFECTUALLY IN’ TERMS OF A FURTHER | INVASION. - : ‘
[127]a, THE GENERAL ATTITUDE OF THE RESISTANCE IN (CUBA TOWARDS
[129]"THE EXILES WAS ONE OF - INDIFFERENCE MOUNTING TO CONTEMPT FOR:
[131]SPECIFIC MOVES ‘SUCH AS. THE PROPOSEO PROMOTION: OF A CUBAN GOVT ;
[133]iN EXILES WHAT . THE RESISTANCE WANTEO WAS ‘FUNDS ANO THE RETURN,
[134], BY INFILTRATION, oF Transeo EXILES, PARTICULARLY COMMUN CATION
[136]5. ON THE: TIMING OF. “CASTRO'S OVERTHROW, RAY. SAID CASTRO WOULD
[138]NoT UsT. ANOTHER . YEAR. HE ADDED THAT THE SITUATION IN. uBA
[139]: IMMEDIATELY AFTER cASTRO'S “DOWNFALL WOULD OF DANGEROUS ‘AND couco “