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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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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.
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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.
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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.