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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.

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  • p. 48 …a promotional spot for Cable News Network (CNN). The Nicaraguan Health Ministry reports that the 171…
  • p. 161 …a promotional spot for Cable News Network (CNN). Havana accuses the US of being involved in…
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Trade Union leader Roberto Veiga, denounces US intervention in Central
America during his speech at the 17th Congress of Soviet Trade Unions in
Moscow.
Defense Secretary Weinberger, on the “Today” TV program, says the Reagan
administration would not tolerate the stationing of any Soviet nuclear missiles in
Cuba, as hinted by Brezhnev on 16 March. Havana press reports that the US mili-
tary exercise “Ocean Venture 82,” scheduled to begin in April, will include an am-
phibious landing at Guantanamo Naval Base. Prensa Latina says the US
Government, for the first time, has noted the possibility of a negotiated solution in
Central America.
Nicaraguan leader Ortega sends a letter to Fidel Castro requesting an emergency
meeting of the UN Security Council to explain “imperialist threats” to Nicara-
guan independence and sovereignty. The Department of State issues a press report
charging that Fidel Castro, last December, ordered a boost in arms shipments to
guerrilla forces in El Salvador to disrupt the 28 March elections. Fidel Castro,
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, and Isidoro Malmierca meet in Havana with Mexican
Foreign Secretary Jorge Castaneda who informs them of the outcome of his talks
with Secretary of State Haig. '
An article in Le Monde reports that US Ambassador at Large Walters made a trip
to Cuba and met for four hours with Fidel Castro.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee approves a bill authorizing government
sponsorship of Radio Marti, which will broadcast news and US opinions to Cuba.
An unidentified US Government officials confirms Le Monde’s article that
Secretary of State Haig recently sent US Ambassador at Large Walters to
Havana, where he met with Fidel Castro.
Fidel Castro sends a message to Libya’s Chief of State Qadhafi stressing that the
nonaligned movement will stand by Nicaragua in the face of US aggression.
Cuba’s Ambassador to the UN Raul Roa asks the UN to urge the US not to use
force against Central America and the Caribbean and he emphasizes that Cuba is
not sending arms to the Salvadorans.
The Nicaraguan youth who had embarrassed the US by reversing his story that he
was sent to fight with leftist guerrillas in El Salvador, attends a Young
Communists’ Convention in Havana.
A Delta Airlines Boeing 727 with 103 people aboard is hijacked in Miami and flies
to Cuba, where the hijackers surrender to Cuban authorities and the aircraft and
passengers return to the US.
The Chicago Sun-Times and the New York Times report that a senior Cuban
official has stated that Cuba is prepared to negotiate with the US on international
differences, including El Salvador.
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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.