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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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First Vice Minister of Foreign Trade Amado Blanco welcomes Portuguese
Secretary of State for Internal Trade Antonio Escaja Goncalves upon his arrival in
Havana.
Minister of Transportation Guillermo Garcia Frias discusses expanding relations
in transportation services and ship repair with Portuguese Secretary of State for
Internal Trade Goncalves.
President Reagan is quoted by the Lisbon weekly O Journal as saying the US was
adamant that Cuban troops must leave Angola, but was ready to show great
flexibility about details of the withdrawal.
A statement by UNITA in Lisbon says that some 12,000 MPLA troops and 5,000
Cubans are making a three-pronged attack against UNITA forces in the Cuando-
Cubango and Moxico Provinces.
Member of the Polish Politburo Jozef Czyrek receives Vilma Espin and they
discuss Poland’s present sociopolitical situation and the international situation.
Carlos Rafael Fernandez, returning from Moscow after completing studies in the
Soviet Union, flees from an Aeroflot jetliner during a stopover landing in Lisbon
and asks for political asylum.
Juan Almeida makes a stopover in Portugal enroute to Praia on a visit to Cape
Verde Islands.
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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.