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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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A Soviet GOSPLAN delegation headed by First Deputy Chairman Yakov
Petrovich Ryabov visits Cuba and discusses the development of electronic
computer system with Humberto Perez Gonzalez.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets with CPSU Central Committee
official Nikolay Vladimirovich who is visiting Cuba as part of the exchange
program between the PCC and CPSU.
Vice Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Baybakov arrives in Havana
heading a Soviet delegation to participate in the 27th meeting of the CEMA
Commission for Cooperation in Planning.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez attends the opening of the 27th meeting of the CEMA
Commission for Cooperation, with Osmani Cienfuegos and Nikolay Baybakov
presiding. White House spokesman Larry Speaks announces that the US has
evidence that the Soviet Union has shipped more MIG-23 fighter aircraft to Cuba.
In a CBS news interview, President Reagan says the US discussed Soviet arms
shipments to Cuba with Soviet leaders and rules “nothing out, nothing in” as a
countermeasure, including a blockade.
Soviet Minister of Foreign Trade N. D. Komarov arrives in Havana and meets
with Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas and Vice President of the Council
of Ministers Guillermo Garcia Frias.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discusses the Soviet-Cuba trade agreement with Soviet
Foreign Trade Minister Nikolay Komarov. Soviet Trade Minister Komarov and
Ricardo Cabrizas sign a trade protocol for 1981-85 that increases both Soviet
deliveries to Cuba and Cuban exports to the USSR. Nikolay Baybakov, chairman
of the State Planning Commission (GOSPLAN), and Foreign Trade Minister
Nikolay Komarov leave Cuba.
The Liberation Front of Eritrea claims that it had downed a plane carrying 70 So-
viet and Cuban experts and 60 Ethiopian officers. According to the statement, all
aboard were killed.
Fidel Castro, in a speech at the 10th WFTU Congress, emphasizes that Cuba
faces new threats from the US and that the arms received from the USSR do not
violate the 1962 US-Soviet agreement.
In a speech to the OAS, President Reagan accuses the USSR and Cuba of
conspiring to bring a new form of “brutal and totalitarian” colonialism to Latin
America.
Orlando Fundora, alternate Central Committee member meets in Havana with
Vitaliy Nikitich Ignatenko, CPSU Central Committee official to discuss matters
of mutual interest.
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