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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.
January 15 April 9 April ll April 13 April 26 May l May 3 May 4 May 5 May 6 May 10 May 22 Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C05143264 Confidential ARGENTINA Fidel Castro meets with Ruy Barreto and explains Cuba’s willingness to offer Brazil the same “preferential treatment” that it grants Mexico and Argentina. A Cuban airliner carrying the Cuban Ambassador to Argentina is detained by Brazilian authorities for entering Brazilian airspace without authorization, but is then allowed to continue to Buenos Aires. The Argentine press announces the resumption of normal diplomatic relations between Argentina and Cuba, and Cuban Ambassdor Emilio Aragones returns to Argentina following a 16-month absence. Argentine Ambassador to Cuba Rafael Vasquez arrives in Havana following a two-month stay in Argentina. The Cuban Government proclaims its “solidarity” with Argentina and calls for the immediate cessation of all military, economic, and other types of hostility against Buenos Aires. The Cuban Government states it will support Argentina in the Falklands dispute with “every means which might become necessary.” Carlos Rafael Rodriguez arrives in Paris and meets with Health Minister Ralite and Foreign Minister Cheysson. Carlos Rafael Rodriguez denies, in Paris, reports that Cuba has supplied weapons to Argentina; he says Cuba recognizes Argentine sovereignty over the islands, but does not support the junta. The French Communist Party issues a communique denouncing imperialism in the Falklands and favoring negotiations following the meeting between Georges Marchais and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez. Cuban Ambassador to Argentina Aragones reiterates Cuba’s solidarity with Argentina in its struggle over the Malvinas Islands during a meeting with Argentine Foreign Ministry official de la Vega. Le Monde cites Marcel Niedergang’s interview with Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, in Paris, in which Rodriguez declares, “that his country would aid Argentina by every means, including military.” Fidel Castro sends a message to Nonaligned leaders appealing to them to take whatever steps appropriate to stop British-US aggression against Argentina. Cuba’s Ambassador to the UN Raul Roa Kouri condemns British aggression and calls for Latin American solidarity for Argentina at the UN session. 1 l Confidential * pproved for Release: 2018/06/01 C05143264
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