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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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The State Department says that Cuban broadcasts to the US, which jammed five
AM radio stations from Florida to Iowa, are evidence of Cuba’s disregard for
international agreements and laws.
The anti-Castro Omega 7 terrorist group, in the name of Cuban exile Orlando
Bosch, claims responsibility for the bomb blast in a building in Miami on 2
September. Flavio Bravo condemns US imperialism and Zionism during a news
conference before his departure from Syria; Syrian and Cuban parliamentarians
sign joint communique. In an article in Foreign Policy magazine, former chief of
the US Interests Section in Havana, Wayne Smith, accuses the US of ignoring
Cuban desires for a political settlement in Central America.
La Prensa Grafica in San Salvador reports that Cuba’s interference with US radio
stations is being heard in El Salvador on various medium-wave frequencies from
very high powered transmitters.
Minister of Agriculture Arnaldo Milian attends the 18th Food and Agriculture
Organization meeting in Managua. He accuses the US of using food as a weapon
to pressure developing countries.
Foreign Minister Malmierca tells newsmen in Manila that Cuba had encountered
a “non-cooperative attitude” from the US in the past when it attempted to
normalize diplomatic relations.
Culture Minister Hart attends the “Dialogue of the Americas” meeting in Mexico.
In an interview with Escelsior, he says that dialogue between the United States
and the continent is necessary.
Cuba’s delegate to the 69th IPU conference in Rome Jorge Lezcano Perez
denounces US aggression and demands the adoption of urgent measures to avoid a
nuclear war.
Foreign Minister Malmierca denounces Washington’s aggressive policy as an
obstacle to normalizing Cuba-US relations during a meeting in Japan with I-Iarou
Okada, Chamber of Representatives leader.
Fidel Castro sends a letter to UN Secretary General Perez de Cuellar calling for
an emergency UN session on Palestine, and denouncing US-Zionist actions
against Lebanon. Cuban exile leader Huber Matos tells a press conference in
Miami that he plans a 10-station network based in Latin American countries to
beam programs to Cuba.
In a news conference in Mexico City, Union of Democratic Journalists President
Antonio Caram said the US is violating the norms of international law with the in-
stallation of Radio Marti.
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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.