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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.

  • p. 47 …US Congressmen Robert Garcia, Hamilton Fish, Jr., and Benjamin Gilman depart for Cuba in hopes of…
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Julio Castro-Palomino, alternadmember of the Central Committee and Director
of the Juragua Electro-Nuclear Plant Investment in Cienfuegos, is killed in an
automobile accident.
A consultation meeting on Latin American and Caribbean trade union education
opens in Havana; Jesus Escandel, Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions
executive secretary, presides.
The Cuban-Soviet Friendship Association for Havana Province is established in
Guines. Central Committee member Luis Alvarez and Soviet ambassador to Cuba
Katushev attend the ceremony.
Central Committee member Hector Rodriguez Llompart announces that the
Foreign Service Institute has been renamed after Raul Roa.
The Tobacco Union Workers Congress is held in Havana and attended by 150 del-
egates. Jose Ramon Machado, Jorge Risquet, and Roberto Veiga preside.
Vice Minister of Justice Hector Garcini Guerra heads the Cuban delegation to the
21st meeting of the CEMA Conference for Legal Affairs being held at the Palace
of Conventions in Havana.
Secretary General of the National Tobacco Workers Union Alejandro Roca says
that bad weather caused some damage to all crops in general last year, the greatest
in Pinar del Rio and Havana Provinces.
Isidro Figueroa, distinguised labor leader and revolutionary founder of the first
MarxistLeninist Party in Cuba, dies in Havana. Guillermo Garcia, Osvaldo
Dorticos, and Jorge Risquet are presented the 28 September Order Medal, the
highest CDR decoration, during ceremonies at the CDR main office.
The 21st CEMA juridical conference is held in Havana. Vice President of the
Council of Ministers Osvaldo Dorticos delivers the opening speech. Vice Minister
of Justice Garcini signs a protocol.
PRISMA, a Cuban monthly, reports that the goal of the Cuban state’s current 5-
year plan is to develop the country’s domestic economy and to have a modest but
sustained production of consumer goods.
Justice Minister Osvaldo Dorticos discusses legal questions applicable to relations
between CEMA member countries with the chiefs of the delegations attending the
21st CEMA Judicial Conference.
The Scientific Research Institutes of the Central Committees of the Communist
and Workers Parties of the Socialist Countries are holding their annual meeting
for the first time in Havana.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 189 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.