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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.
Confidential July 23 July 26 July 27 July 28 August 1 August 10 August 11 August 17 August 18 August 23 August 24 August 25 Confidential Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C05143264 An Air Florida commuter flight is hijacked from Miami to Havana by two males who are taken into custody by Cuban police; the airplane returns to Key West. Acting Foreign Minister Viera says that the US expulsion of two of Cuba’s UN diplomats, Mario Monzon Barata and Jose Rodriguez, was meant to prevent Havana’s UN mission from functioning. ANGOP news agency reports that Angola rejects the US proposal for simulta- neous withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola as a condition for the settlement of the Namibian problem. Panamanian President Royo, on a 24-hour official visit to Venezuela, says that Cuba should attend the next meeting of Latin American foreign ministers while the US should remain out of it. 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.” According to the Miami Herald, a Grand Jury is investigating dealings between the Cuban Government and southern Florida drug dealers. The House of Representatives approves plans for Radio Marti, a US station that will broadcast to Cuba giving Cubans an alternative to their government’s views. The US Senate approves a declaration—the Symms Amendment—supported by Reagan Administration officials, which asserts that the US will use arms if necessary to stop Cuban aggression. Foreign Minister Malmierca attacks the US for supporting Israel, during the opening session of the special UN General Assembly meeting on Palestine. Fidel Castro warns that Cuba will start its own broadcasts to the US if the Reagan Administration broadcasts to Cuba over the proposed Radio Marti. President of the National Assembly Falvio Bravo arrives in the GDR and meets with GDR People’s Chamber President Sindermann; they condemn the US administration’s imperialist exploitations. The Department of State reports that the Cuban military has grown from a largely home defense force in less than a de- cade to the best equipped power in Latin America. Flavio Bravo denounces the Symms Amendment during a meeting with GDR Prime Minister Willi Stoph. On 25 August he begins a two day tour through the Karl Marx Stadt industrial province. The minister president of the Cuban State Committee for Economic Cooperation, heading the Cuban delegation to the eighth SELA council meeting in Caracas, condemns US foreign policy. 156 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 under it. 189 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.