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.
Confidential Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C05143264 May 6 May 14 May 20 June 10 June 19 July 24-29 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 August 7 Confidential Angolan Secretary of State Rodeth Gil departs Luanda on a working visit to Cuba. Angolan Education Minister Augusto Lopes Teixeira and his delegation visit four farms schools attended by some 1,800 Angolan students on the Isle of Youth. Minister of Culture Armando Hart meets with his Angolan counterpart Boaven- tura da Silva Cardoso in Havana; a cultural exchange agreement in the field of music is signed on 18 May. A Cuban delegation from the Ministry of Education, the National Science and Education Workers Union, the Union of Young Communists, and the Federation of Intermediate Level Students visits Angola. Minister President of the State Committee for Finance Francisco Garcia Valls visits various Angolan oil fields in Zaire Province. Angola’s official news agency ANGOP rejects any link between negotiations for the independence of Namibia and the presence of Cuban troops in Angola. Rene Rodriguez Cruz, President of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with Peoples (ICAP) visits Luanda and meets with Lucio Lara, MPLA-Labor Party Central Committee secretary for organization. Fidel Castro cites Cuba’s conditions for troop withdrawal from Angola and provides economic statistics for Cuba during a low-key speech marking the 29th anniversary of the revolution. ANGOP news agency reports that Angola rejects the US proposal for simultaneous withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola as a condition for the settlement of the Namibian problem. Jonas Savimbi, leader of UNITA, says that about 8,500 Cuban troops, with Soviet advisers and equipment, are leading a major offensive against his Angolan opposition movement. Minister of Education Jose Fernandez says that a report in The Wall Street Journal that 2,000 Angolan students in Cuba had been expelled is “an infamous lie.” Rene Rodriguez Cruz and Coelho da Cruz, President of the Angolan League for Friendship and Solidarity with Peoples (LAASP) sign a 5-year cooperation agreement for 1982-87 in Luanda. Angolan Ambassador to Cuba Baptista tells the press that relations between Cuba and Angola “are excellent” and that Cuban troops will leave Angola “little by little”_ when the governments decide. Havana announces that 1,000 Angolan students will arrive soon to join the almost 2,000 others currently in Cuba. 5 <0 Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C05143264
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