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The CIA's Directorate of Intelligence issued this Weekly Summary, No. 0369/70, on 8 May 1970. It covers events through noon on 7 May. The Far East section deals with the allied operations into Cambodia, Hanoi's cautious response and the government in exile Sihanouk formed in Peking. Other items cover Soviet military aid, the Sino-Soviet talks, Jordan, Dahomey, Guatemala and Brazil, and a special report looks at Cuban support for subversion in Latin America. Many pages are withheld, and the summary contains no UFO material.
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Approved for Release: 2023/03/28 C03154550 in clandestine activities in Africa has declined considerably since the mid-1960s, Castro has sought to maintain contact with Marxist-oriented guerrilla organizations targeted against white Afri- can governments. In a speech at the UN General Assembly on 8 October 1969, Cuban ambassador Ricardo Alarcon said: “Cuba reaffirms her com- plete support for the struggle of the African peoples for their full national independence and proclaims her militant solidarity with the libera- tion movements of Guinea-Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique, and with the oppressed African peoples in South Africa, Namibia, and Zim- =babwe.” What type of support Alarcon referred W _ \ i J Cuban instructors are reportedly helping to train African guerrilla units such as this MPLA detachment pictured in Havana's Party newspaper. C 1 b3 to became evident the following month when Portuguese military units in Portuguese Guinea captured a Cuban army officer serving with an African guerrilla band operating out of the nei h- boring Republic of b 1 Actions of both the MPLA and the PAIGC receive prominent. play in the Cuban press, and red carpet treatment is extended to any leaders of the movements that visit Cuba. For propaganda support, PAIGC war communiqués are regularly forwarded to Havana by the Cuban Embassy in Conakry for publication in the party newspaper. The MPLA maintains a permanent repre- sentative in Havana for close liaison. Cuba also maintains loose contact with the Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO), but this tenuous relationship seems to have cooled somewhat since the assassination early last year of FRELIMO President Eduardo Mondlane. URBAN TERRORISM The new emphasis on urban terrorism has an important side benefit for Cuba. Bank robberies, Special Report - 10 - 8 May 1970 Approved for Release: 2023/03/28 C03154550
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 78 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.