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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.
-—w—- -r~v v u > r ‘V rI'*fi'fi Y F 1 -— 1 ‘-1-—-w. w—w —\~ fi—w ~rv April 24 June 21 July 1 July 27 July 29 July 30 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 25 October 20 November 28 November 29 Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C05143264 Confidential VENEZUELA Havana Domestic Service charges that the US Government is continuing its anti- Cuban campaign and is now using the pretext of an alleged Cuban threat to justify the sale of F-16s to Venezuela. Venezuelan Minister of State for Intelligence Development Dr. Luis Alberto Machado arrives in Cuba, where he has a “cordial, wide-ranging, and important” meeting with Fidel Castro on 23 June. Havana press reports that the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional, members of the Movement for Socialism, and the People’s Electoral Movement of Venezuela all favor normalizing relations with Cuba. 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. The trainer of a Cuban athletic team, scheduled to compete in the Pan-American Junior Athletic Championships on 31 July 1 August in Venezuela, asks for political asylum in Venezuela. Venezuelan Vice Minister of Interior Miguel Angel Hernandez tells the press that Venezuela has granted asylum to Cuban athletic coach Pedro Pablo Garcia. Luis Posada Carriles and Hernan Ricardo, accused of sabotaging a Cuban aircraft in 1976, escape from prison in Venezuela and seek asylum at the Chilean Embassy in Caracas. ' The Venezuelan-Cuban Friendship Institute in Caracas charges that prison authorities helped in the escape of two members of the group involved in the sabotage of a Cuban airliner in October 1976. The Chilean Government rejects the asylum request made by two anti-Castro activists who escaped from a Venezuelan prison. 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. Havana press reports Venezuelan Minister Gonzalo Garcia Bustillos statement of deep appreciation for Cuba’s support for Venezuela’s effort to become a full member of the Nonaligned Movement. A Cuban seeking asylum ducks a hail of bullets from Cuban security guards to get into the Venezuelan Embassy in Havana. A Cuban seeking asylum at the Venezuelan Embassy in Havanaon 28 November voluntarily leaves the Venezuelan Embassy after an agreement was reached between Venezuelan and Cuban officials. 171 Confidential ' 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 above. 189 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.