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Cuban Chronology 1982

Central Intelligence Agency · 1983-06-01 · 189 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 132 …Panamanian Colonels Roberto Diaz Herrera and Marcos Justines, Minister of the Presidency Gabrial Castro, and Adviser…
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January 19
February 15
February 16
February 26
March 23-29
April 6
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April ll
May 20
June 3
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June 17
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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.
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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.
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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.