Documents / FOIA release
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.
November 15 November 17 November 22 November 24 December 2 December 4 December 8 December 13 December 14 December 18 December 30 Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C05143264 Confidential During a press conference, Jonas Savimbi, leader of the UNITA guerrilla movement, warns that the war against the Luanda government will continue if Cuban troops remain in Angola. The first 53 members of the fourth contingent of the Ernesto Che Guevara Internationalist Teachers Detachment arrive in Luanda, Angola. Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas establishes, in London, a committee for Angola- Cuban trade that will function as a complement to the joint inter-governmental commission. Angolan Minister Ribeiro meets in Havana with Joel Domenech, Minister of Basic Industry and Diocles Torralba, Minister of the Sugar Industry and visits manufacturing and agricultural centers. Hector Rodriguez Llompart and Angolan Industry Minister Bento Ribeiro sign a cooperation accord, in Havana, in the sugar, metal-mechanical working, shipbuilding, and basic industries. The Angolan Secretary of State for Cooperation Paulino Pinto Joao leaves Luanda for Cuba where he will participate in the Angola-Cuba joint subcommission on economics. Cuban Vice Minister of Agriculture Francisco Gonzalez tours the Angolan province of Cabinda to discuss strengthening ties in the agricultural field and to evaluate their forestry potential. Vice Minister of Agriculture Francisco Gonzalez and his Angolan counterpart Graciano Mande sign a forestry cooperation agreement in Luanda; forestry studies will begin in January 1983 in Cabinda. Juan Almeida and Cape Verde’s Prime Minister Pedro Pires sign a declaration condemning South African aggression against Angola and Pretoria and destabiliz- ing maneuvers, particularly in Mozambique. The New York Times reports that Assistant Secretary Crocker and Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Ilyichev are in Moscow discussing Namibia and the Cuban presence in Angola. Cuba and Guinea-Bissau issue a joint communique emphasizing Cuba’s aid to Angola and rejecting US attempts to link Namibia’s independence to the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola. A joint-Mozambique-Cuban communique is released in Maputo rejectingany attempts to link the independence to Namibia to the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola. 9 Confidential * pproved for Release: 2018/06/01 C05143264
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