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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 January 19 February 15 February 16 February 26 March 23-29 April 6 April 9 - April ll May 20 June 3 June 7 June 17 Confidential Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C05143264 PALESTINE LIBERATION First Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Jose R. Viera delivers a message from Fi- del Castro to PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat. The message deals with the international situation; no details are released. Fidel Castro receives a message of support from PLO chairman Yasir Arafat regarding Israel’s preparations for war in south Lebanon. As President of the Nonaligned Movement, Fidel Castro issues a statement warning of the imminent possibility of a widescale Israeli aggression against the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. ' Foreign Minister Malmierca sends messages to his Indian and Zambian counter- parts, and the PLO Political Department, seeking a nonaligned meeting on the Iran-Iraq conflict. l_ Nayef Hawatmeh, secretary general of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, visits Cuba and discusses international issues with Fidel Castro and PCC Secretariat members. Foreign Minister Malmierca, addressing a Nonaligned Coordinating Bureau meeting in Kuwait, stresses solidarity with Palestine and urges the nonaligned countries to put an end to Israeli aggressions. At a special meeting of the Nonaligned Country Movement Coordination Bureau in Kuwait, Foreign Minister Malmierca charges that Israel is preparing for new attacks against Palestine. Foreign Minister Malmierca, his Indian and Zambian counterparts, and a PLO representative are received in Tehran by President Khamenei. Fidel Castro sends a message to PLO leader Yasir Arafat calling for pressure on British authorities to prevent military threats against Argentina and to search for political solutions. Foreign Minister Malmierca and the PLO’s Political Department chief Faruq al- Qaddumi sign an agreement that upgrades Palestinian diplomatic representation in Cuba to the ambassadorial level. 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. Fidel Castro answers Yasir Arafat’s message by pledging total support and military solidarity in response to the Israeli aggression. 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. 120 Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C05143264
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 189 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.