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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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Foreign Minister Isidoro Malmierca talks with a joint delegation of the National
Patriotic Forces of Lebanon consisting of Walid Junblatt, George Hawi, Muhsin
Ibrahim, and Samir Sabbag. Yasir Arafat forwards a “very important” personal
message to Fidel Castro. 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 receives a message from Yasir Arafat requesting an urgent meeting
of the ministers of the Nonaligned Movement be held as soon as possible in
Cyprus.
Fidel Castro sends a telegram to PLO leader Yasir Arafat offering to house 500
Palestinian orphans in a Havana boarding school that he has renamed the “Beirut
Battle School.”
PLO charge d’affaires in Cuba Imad Hadah asserts at a press conference in
Havana that it would be a great honor for the Palestinians to send 500 orphaned
children from Beirut to Cuba.
PLO leader Arafat sends greetings to Fidel Castro, before departing Beirut for
Greece, expressing his appreciation for all of his assistance and support. Flavio
Bravo condemns Israel’s aggression against Lebanon and reiterates Cuba’s
solidarity with the Palestinian people during meetings with Syrian officials Al-
Farum, Al-Ahmas, and Al-Kasm.
PLO leader Yasir Arafat sends a message to Fidel Castro requesting him to
inform all nonaligned countries about the Israeli invasion of Beirut.
Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Ramiro Valdes, and Jesus Montane meet
in Moscow with Yasir Arafat.
A PLO solidarity ceremony is held at the FAR Universal Hall in Havana and Isi-
doro Malmierca addresses the group on opening day.
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