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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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-> ~ T7 ‘Y w= W“ r ,w.,wv.—v r v r A June 13 June 16 June 18 June 20 June 28 June 29 July 4 July 13 July 14 July 16- Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C05143264 Confidential Prensa Latina reports that the US Government’s decision to reactivate its naval base in Key West, Florida, shows Washington’s aggressive policy toward Central America and the Caribbean. During a speech at the UN, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez condemns the US for its sup- port of the British invasion of the Malvinas and Israel’s aggression. Havana press reports that the US Navy is building four 250-foot antennas in the Florida Keys to be used by Radio Marti. In an interview with Prensa Latina Carlos Rafael Rodriguez says that President Reagan’s UN speech should be considered a sign of the failure of US policy projections. 9 A House Republican Conference Committee member says the Soviet Union has violated a 1962 agreement between President Kennedy and Soviet leader Khru- shchev regarding Soviet weapons in Cuba. Reuters New York reports that Carlos Rafael Rodriguez has stated the Reagan Administration is incapable of improving diplomatic relations with Cuba. The July issue of Readers Digest magazine says that Cuba has been involved in smuggling millions of dollars worth of illegal drugs into Southern Florida and that Raul Castro is involved. The Readers Digest article also says that the pipeline used to smuggle drugs has been used to move “hundreds of tons” of weapons to Cuban- backed forces in El Salvador, Colombia, and Guatemala. During Soviet-Cuban intergovernmental meetings in Moscow, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez says that imperialist aggression has adversely affected Cuba’s foreign economic relations. The US mission to the UN informs the Cuban UN mission of the decision to expel Jose Rodriguez and Mario Monzon Barata for violating the Trading With the Enemy Act. Culture Minister Armando Hart tells a group of US university professors attending the fourth meeting of the Association of Caribbean Studies that Cuba wants a dialogue with the US. Granma publishes a communique signed by Fidel Castro and Col. Sassou-Nguesso blaming the US for the worsening of international tensions and the danger to peace and security of the world. Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ricardo Alarcon tells a meeting of US-based Association of Caribbean Studies that the US must accept the social changes in the Caribbean and Central America. Fidel Castro sends a letter to the Nicaraguan Junta on the 3rd anniversary of its revolution on 19 July promising to continue backing its government in the face of US aggression. Foreign Minister Malmierca addresses the Nonaligned Conference meeting in Cyprus condemning Israeli aggression against Lebanon, supported by the US, and demands evacuation of all invasion forces. 1 5 5 Confidential Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C05143264
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