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This Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Intelligence reference aid, ALA 83-10064, is dated June 1983. It lists major international and domestic events affecting Cuba between 1 January and 31 December 1982, arranged alphabetically by country, plus sections on the Nonaligned Movement and the Palestine Liberation Movement. Entries include Cuban troops in Angola, Cuban support for Argentina in the Falklands dispute, and trade and cooperation agreements with many nations. It does not discuss UFOs.
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Confidential February 15 April 27 g April 28 April 29 June 7 June 8 June 13 June 15 June 17 June 19 June 23 July 3 Confidential Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C05143264 LEBANON Fidel Castro receives a message of support from PLO chairman Yasir Arafat regarding Israel’s preparations for war in south Lebanon. Rene Rodriguez heads a delegation of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (ICAP) to Beirut to visit cities and refugee camps. Central Committee member Rene Rodriguez travels to Beirut to deliver a message from Fidel Castro to Yasir Arafat, who briefs Rodriguez on Lebanese political and military developments. Cuba and the Palestinian Resistance Movement sign a five-year agreement on solidarity and cooperation that provides for joint activities in Cuba and Palestinian refugee camps. PLO President Yasir Arafat asks Fidel Castro, as President of the Nonaligned Movement, for the solidarity of the movement in the face of the Israeli forces’ in- vasion of Lebanon. Havana Radio reports that Fidel Castro told representatives to the meeting of Nonaligned countries in Havana that “the criminal aggression of Israel against Lebanon” must be halted. Fidel Castro sends a message to the heads of state and government of the Nonaligned Movement requesting solidarity as a result of Israel’s attacks on Lebanon. Fidel Castro sends a new appeal to nonaligned members demanding the withdraw- al of the aggressors from the territory they have occupied in Lebanon. , Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar to discuss the situation in the Malvinas, Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and developments on disarmament. Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Syria to assert the Cuban people’s support for the joint Palestinian-Lebanese forces in the face of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Foreign Minister Malmierca departs Syria after informing President Hafiz al- Asad of the steps being taken by Fidel Castro to exert pressure on Israel to withdraw from Lebanon. Foreign Minister Malmierca delivers a message from Fidel Castro to PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat. They discuss a wide range of questions concerning the Israeli and Lebanon War. Fidel Castro sends a message to the heads of state and government of the Nonaligned Movement’s member countries asking help to stop the Israeli attack against Lebanon. 92 Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C05143264
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