Documents / FOIA release
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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January 15' January 18 January 27 March 10 March 14' March 17 April 7 April 24 June 6 August 8 October 1 Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C05143264 Confidential SPAIN Minister of Foreign Trade Ricardo Cabrizas and Spain’s Secretary of State for Trade Agustin Hidaldo de Quintana sign a 1982 trade protocol. Isidoro Malmierca meets with the delegation. In an interview with Radio Reloj, Spain’s Secretary of State for Trade denounces US policy toward Cuba and stresses the continuation of relations with Cuba despite international tensions. Armando Hart holds a meeting in Havana with Spanish Foreign Ministry official Armando Gonzalez de Mesas to discuss the signing of the first bilateral cultural and educational agreement. King Juan Carlos of Spain bestows the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic upon Cuban Ambassador to Spain Carlos Alfaro. Cuba’s Council of State designates Oscar Garcia Fernandez as Cuba’s Ambassa- dor to Spain. Culture Minister Armando Hart and Spanish Ambassador to Cuba Enrique Larroque sign, in Havana, the first cultural and educational cooperation agree- ment between the two countries. In an interview published by Madrid’s El Pais, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez says that Cuba does not supply arms to El Salvador and that economic conditions in Cuba have worsened. Cuba and Spain sign a cooperation program in Madrid for 1982-84 in culture and education. In Madrid, on his way to represent Fidel Castro at a CEMA conference in Budapest, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez says that Cuba stands ready to help in the Malvinas when Argentina requests it. The Madrid newspaper El Pais reports that Luis Negrete, Cuban Vice Minister of Industry, requested political asylum in Spain. Foreign Minister Malmierca discusses bilateral relations and matters under consideration by the UN with the foreign ministers of Nicaragua, Spain, Peru, and Argentina at the UN. 135 Confidential 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.