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Cuban counter-revolutionaries can erthrow the Castro regime without p from the United States, Manolo ay declared last night at the Winthrop ouse Forum...
...Manolo Ray, a member of the Cuban Revolutionary Council and founder of MRP, a leftist organization of Cuban counter-revolutionists, will speak for the Winthrop House Forum at 8 tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall. Ray shares the platform with Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government; William S. Barnes, Assistant Dean of the Law School; and John N. Plank '49, instructor in Government. They will discuss "The Future of Cuba...
...says Varona, onetime head of the old-line Auténtico Party, should be returned to its original owners except for "about 15%" that is not productive. Later, another organization came to the CIA's attention: the People's Revolutionary Movement (M.R.P.), led and founded by Manuel ("Manolo") Ray,* 36, a soft-spoken engineer whose talent for organization had made him leader of the highly effective underground movement against Batista in Havana. Ray became Castro's Minister of Public Works, and stood it until November 1959, shortly after Castro jailed one of his comrades-in-arms...
Money & Bases. The CIA's decision against them quickly became apparent to Manolo Ray and the M.R.P. Organized into cells to spread sabotage across Cuba, the M.R.P. men say they asked many times for explosives and boats to get the stuff ashore, but were usually waved aside. But the Frente was becoming a big enterprise. Estimates of how much money was pumped into the Frente for recruiting centers and other political expenses vary from $130,000 monthly to a high of $520,000 last December. As the plans for a frontal invasion took shape, CIA men went to Guatemala...
...midst of the Frente buildup, the underground sabotage operations of the M.R.P. inside Cuba came almost to a halt for lack of matériel. In November, Manolo Ray sneaked out of Cuba to the U.S., hoping to win some support. Anxious to collect all anti-Castro organizations under one umbrella, the CIA offered to help M.R.P. on condition that it join Varona's Frente. The M.R.P. refused. The M.R.P. asked that arms be dropped to guerrillas in Escambray. The CIA, say the exiles, finally agreed, but on condition that the weapons be stamped with the Frente...