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Weekly Summary

Central Intelligence Agency · 1970-05-08 · 78 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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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
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Cuban instructors are reportedly helping to train
African guerrilla units such as this MPLA detachment
pictured in Havana's Party newspaper.
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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,
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