“14-00000 La MATION REPORT 1 19 i n ns ^ Deanaiose t a 82CR27 DATE OF EPO Ca-DDC3 L0 / THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT HAS. RENEWED NEGOT C: PAYMENT CF DEBTS RESULT tNG CM EXPEOPR I WESTERN EUROPEAN BUSINESS INTERESTS. THE CUBAN MINISTRY CF ECRE TRADE IS TRYING TO INTE”
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“14-00000 v 1 INFORMATION REPORTTElGs CENTRAL CNIVELMGENCE AGENCY 73 metoelat roetaini iiforeatica effecting the tiatinnet Catema cf the Caited Ctatss ueten the messing et th tipia-ses Lees tats is, use test 70 153 €=* yta, tie transmission • sovatetipa cl said i cay aasd”
“BRITISH "FINANCIAL TIMES" WHICH INDICATE COMECON CONSIDERS FURTHER AID TO CUBA BEYOND BLOC CAPABILITIES; (3) CASTRO’S OWN PROBLEMS, E.G. LACK DOLLAR CREDITS AND DEPRESSION IN WORLD SUGAR MARKET WITH PRICE DROPPING FROM DEC 63 PEAK 12.6 TO 2.35 CENTS POUND SECRET”
“CHART No.5 CUBAN TRADE WITH COMMUNIST COUNTRIES 1959-1966 EXPRESSED WN MILLION AGREEMENT US DOLLARS EXPRESSED I) PERCENTAGES. TRADE VALE = -co, • 7co. ICO 90 600- So Sco- To -.0 .. : to 400. :50 .f - go----***-**** —Hr 300. .43 2co- 30 ‘** 20 100- 80 o c”
“WEA• Dait-tinlatiEsaini CHART N0.6 04 CUBAN TRADE WITH COMMUNIST COUNTRIES As PERCENTAGE or TOTAL TRADE 1964-194 TO TAL Tel) oc’/ E:RRTS • t IMP:RTS • • • •- m / t: 7c -moetvth p5wn■ 5c 4 3c ■20 WeRwa SUGAR MARKET MARAGa Prices 25% 290 .646- 5% 283 LK C”
“at •24*• 1 -**- K. --tovidhico vatets-alatAkaL. CHART NO.2 CUBAN FOREIGN TRADE 1959-1966 TRADE WITH SELECTED AREAS EXPRESSED IN PERCENTAGES, TOTAL TRADE =100.0% 120 —ho 1 o S *} 7%* • 4 .0 1 i . C I 4 4 f 1 8 3 6 t. 1959 1960 1961 192 1965 1964 1965 ”
“they are going well, despite the obstacles, de- spite the hurricane.... ft As he has done before, Castro blamed the sloth and ineptitude of the Cuban bourgeousie for the "mismanagement, lack of concern for expenditures, by lack of concern not only for the quantity but also th”
“countries in the Americas at this time, thanks to the failure of the Cuban sugar harvest.- It would be extremely rewarding for Colombia to explore the inme diste possibilities that eixst in these three markets, as surely some transag. tione could be made that would benefit yo”
“message of 25 November, Havana instructed its ambassador in Ghana to sign a cultural pact with Ghana during the first part of December. The Cuban representative was told to sign the Ghanaian-inspired pact "out of political considerations." (NSA 3/0/SOD/T202-63, 27 November, ”
“1 4-00000 WP* Economic Research Bureau, Unidad Revolucional 9 Rui 18 Nov. 65 IO S. E. 9th Street, 4 . banti izwd. Miami, Fla. U.S.A. 1 _ CUBAN TRADING Your circulars regarding Cuban affairs and trading contain useful information but it seems that neither you nor the ”
“j.?! ^i- wa. 1 1 > Economic Research Bureau. P Unidad Revolutionaria, 10 S.E. 9th Street, Miami * Fla. U.S.A. CUBAN TRADING We expected by now some action from your end or from the American Authorities to whom we had sent our previous copied communication to you(Wash”
“13-00000 TOP SECRET DINAR SOVIET BLOC RELATIONS cont ‘d There have been no reported Castro appearances around 15 November. On 7 November he talked with a group of students at Havana University and on 19 November he reportedly visited a PURS meeting in Matanzas. However, b”
“‘ “67 -t CA 10 s ■ 0 4086 :* -2 4 (110) 19 L* . MIAMI, FLA., NoV. 19 (AP)-A SHARP DECLINE IN SKIPPING FRCM . Frier., NON-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES TO CURA WAS REPORTED TODAY. .’ -?. ONLY SEVEN VESSELS FROM THESE AREAS TOUCHED CUBAN PORTS LAST. .MONTH, SAID REVOLUTIONARY UNITY (U”
“items (than arms," State has prepared a program to be submitted to this OAS committee in the future. The evidence in that Cuba's economy is suffering. Trade with the Communist Bloc and others has kept it limping along, despite scarcity of U.S. goods, the bad drought limiting agra”
“TABLE NO. 1 CUBA , FOREIGN TRADE 1959 - 1966 (Expressed in million USS ) YEAR EXPORTS % IMPORTS % TOTALS sa X*BALANCE - Cormunist o Adv count ries 1.2 15.8 Non-Communist 1939 13,9 2,2 1.9 0.1 15,8 Na Gay countries 1959 623,9 97.8 666.1 99.9 1289.9 98.9 -42,3 Dt. Tota”
“14-00000 IN 20328 1 PAGE BOUGHT 185,003 TONS CUBAN SUGAR AND WILL BUY 200,000 TONS MORE; 6 JAPAN ALSO DELIVERING LARGE NUMBER FISHING VESSELS AND PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CUBAN FISHING INDUSTRY. DETAILS ABOVE MEXICO’S EXC/LSIOR, NEW YORK JOURNAL OF COMMERCE AND JAPAN”
“firms that trade with the Castro tyranny. I will illustrate this. The Cuban government agency responsible for arranging maritime transpor tation for merchandise bought abroad is the "Empresa Cubana de Fletes" (CUFLET).”
“COMERCIAL VTODO TRANSPORTE MARIIMO CON CUBA COMUNISTA. (ACUERDO DE LA CAMARA DE COMERCID DE LAS AMERICAS, xv CONVENTION ANUAL, JUNTO 16, 1965) INTERRUPT COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE AND ALL MARITIME TRAFFIC WITH COMMUNIST CUBA. (RESOLUTION or THE CHAMBER or COMMERCE or THE AMERICAS, X”
“of their signed agreement with Cuba. The re The. violation was re- ported to the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Trade, which instructed CUBATABACO to institute proceedings to recover damages from the Poles. Cuba sued for 31 mil- lion and the Poles, having being caught red-handed,”
“3 CUBAN TRADING 18th Nov. 1966 The Economic Research Bureau, Uniaad Kevolutionaria, 10, S.3. 9th Street - Miami, rls. USA On the 16th instant we wrote you about the Castro Delegation which arrived in Athens recently to conclude new chartering contracts. We can now repo”
“1 4-00000 I *% ----- DFTTERHAD "CONOMTC IN LLIGEN F PORT. Miami, June , 1966 Prof. Torsten Garlund EVENSKA FOKFRF BRIKS AKTIEROLAGET Huvidkondoret Box 17050 Malmo 17, Sweden. Dear Prof. Garlund: . We had the opportunity of cooperating with Ing. Raul Espar za in f”
“1,289,900,000 and $ 15,800,000 (A 2 2 % •/ Likbacke ) 4 respectively in 1959. The trade balance was in favor of Cuba in the amount of $ 68,000,000 as control 9 nkttdakdtuhibsohwizihli 1 1 of imports, especially from the Free World, established in 1959 was having its effec”
“SEURSr-SENDTivs -2- lift. They are: 1. The realization in the Cuban Government that the continuing high sugar prices in the world market .have enabled Cuba to expand its convertible. currency reserves from about $20 million toannst, No almost $100 million during the year. ”
“del estates de Luques Cubanos go, no puede negarse que el insolonte Volsky dijo uno bloque comunisto que pudie- ran monipolor el volumen comer- verdod en Caracos, ol monos n cuonto se refiere a la cial. Mi tarea no era nada facil, OITETO porte de su aserto. ...•El trafico ma”
“£4000000 5cal Intelligence Information RPUR WHS/Er vol Defines el the urue Spates within the meoning 5003 u’eriol resto-m aform This of the (p-onage 1.4> H». 793— 794, the recovsaasies or revelation of which in on. moneet to on un ubited by Diarc: ANTE CP NO FOREIGN DISS”
“3 1 - oleaotAublee 7 - 1 : Yoyin - ans kattablihiids. iShyot • 9 * * * - * * * * * Bss CUBAN TRADING 2nd December 1966. yeaw The Economic Research Bureau, ageninfu-s cliksot Unidad Revolutionaria, 9th oStreet, IO , S. E. , u Miami, Fla. USA, Enclosed”
“CHART N0.I CUBAN FOREIGN TRADE 1959-1966 Expressed i M. litenUS Dollars tec: .000 s3cc J ’) 1 lice 1100 /E/ M/ / /C E E X 0 2 7 ioce % %0 -*--1 1 2 2 9 X 2 X 2 8 2 % ice 700 XZXXXXXXXX lot I .I#F razuws -1 -- 1 B 4 l — "’ 5cc owomispvr 400 J”
“14-00000 atl.w a- .2/ A rr Bogota, D. E., October 17, 1966 Exorio. Sr. Ebajador dol Japon En Colombia E. S. D. Excellence: On accornt of the forthconin: Trado Serinar that will take place from the zet- st of this month in the Citf of Tokyo, with the participa- tion”
“that Cu ba's "friends", after buying this tobacco, re-export it to hard-currency coun- •. tries at lower prices than those established by the "Empresa CUBATABACO".for the free world market. . . " . I may cite a specific instance of this, Late in 1962, . the Polish enter-.: ”
“portuarios del hemisfe- fronte venden faciones; la politico que ho de seguir rio a troves de la ORIT, a cuyo la URSS es quien determina marchan los miembros de la el regimen de Lo Hobeno, y es la URSS quien recibe, con- Federation Portuatia de Venezuela. con sus titeres”
“14-00000 •s• BidNAL cEnTERUSE ACP 40”- Xthe nmece PAGG or sos CO: 1• OMF 0 0 0 0 00" 1 cussainicanom SECRET MMIMI wanoune moicaran (bate.pue aaous ens MItMtaeeomtewvmeca 05 2116 Z 487650 STAFF CONF: WH8 INFO: FILE XR/AV. EUN8,SS5 DIRECTOR 0 dices DISSEM BY: 00 ”
“poration. (Page 6) Cuba may establish diplomatic relations with Somalia and is attempting to improve its relations with Tanganyika and Ghana, according to intercepted communications.(' Page 7) Two representatives of the Cuban National Association of Small Farmers are plannin”
“ADDITION REUTERS SOURCES STATED THAT SEVERAL HIGHLY PLACED OFFICIALS WOULD SOON FALL IN THE CLEANUP AND THAT "FULL INVESTIGATION OF OFFICIALS’ MORAL AND POLITICAL PRACTICES .ALREADY UNDERWAY IN GOVT MINISTRIES". THE MINISTRIES OF FOREIGN 6 AFFAIRS AND FOREIGN TRADE WILL BE M”
“.-.** i .4 - the Free World had they had a $ 12,000,000 deficit on the trade balance with Cuba and now Cuba was• $ 300,000 8deferi tortt with the Free World 6) For 1964, a favorable world sugar market (average price of 5.86 cts. per pound) encouraged Cuba to continue it”
“evropeo donde se conks. imiento del contrato pospu so po- «.De acuerdo con mi experientio. • • 3* del comercie mortime de Cuba, Y. cola el cargomento de m.eles, fo junto de 1967. el gobierno cubono confronts dos el producto de la vento de las mis. Le port conrnzur fe’e el EFT”
“-2- Cuba are being brought to trial. Throughout this period and Ante whenever possible a particular effort was made to relate developments in China to present or possible developments in Cuba. The difficulties of the Chinese economy provided examples to which a Cuban "twist" ”
“depende de " hoy que ham encara la1a industria que hacian falta, pero que no es totalmente la contraria. pendiente de la metropoli ru- cio con los paises comunistas. la Union Sovietica para su azucarera cubana en general, se conseguian . en el bloque En efecto, Cuba depende sa”
“4-00000 CHART M0-4 CUBAN IMPORTS 1959-/966 ICO IMPORTS FROM SELECTED AREAS EXPRESSED id PERCENTAGES. TOTAL IMPORTS = 1co.o % I9 PC $0 % t0 M3 •l , , —+-+*e:3eor 1 *i .1 '' ] 1 I. .1 o 6 10 -959 1%0 191 1962 1963 114 1965 19 COMMUNIST COUNTRIES ”
“4-00000 QUETIONAIR" Fo-PRO-SNR TORSTN-GARLUND EVRSTKA FOCK RENRRTKF AKTIFROLAGFT 1 .- CHIINS UFug TDurTPIR Before Castrot 400 In 1966 50 2 .- PAIRING OF CMRAN FUGAR TECHNICIAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA Before Castro: Agricultural Engineer <4 .years) ‘ Sugar Chemical ”
“sAC. . • CUBAN TRADING Economic Research Bureau, Unidad kevoluvionaria, 10 , S. E. 9th Street, Miami rle. USA. We wrote you few days ago about the illegal Cuban trading and we now - enclose herewith cutting ‘ from ‘ todays , 5th November 1966, Piraeus Newspaper " NaeTIL”
“ports,sometimes as . far as Japan, freight rate depending at which port cargo is discharged, i and final orders are usually given seven days after sailing from Cuba. ■ As stated, the Lebanon Authorities ostensibly allow Lebanon flag ships i to carry these cargoes to Arab Coun”
“13-00000 TOP SECRET DINAR BLOC RELATIONS: A four-man Soviet delegation to revise social science cur- riculum at Havana University.has arrived in Havana. (Page 6) NON-BLOC COMMERCIAL RELATIONS: The US consul in Antwerp has been informed by the Varmi Company of Brussels th”
“11 - 2 - B.- Japan provides Castro of hard currency. It is estimated that Japan provides Castro with 30% of its hard currency, due to the previously mentioned fact of a deficit in its trade balance with Cuba. The hard currency has avoraged during the last four yearn the am”
“-2- the unstable political situation under the Batista regime and the economic insecurity *-*-* of the new Castro regime. .3 Of the above mentioned exports, 97.8% were to Free World countries and only 2.2% ejtia im twih to Communist countries. Import-wise, 99.% were made ”
“after all flags have been cancelled. This second action is a big debt the USA Authorities owe to all the Greek and Lebanon Owners . who complied withe laws of their countries and executed the wishes of the USA. It is a moral debt. These people will gain nothing because they d”
“14-00000 g . 1 Ji___ -6- e.- Cole-bin: Yr. Jose R. Mercado, President of the Confederation of Colombian Workers (CTC) delivered a memorandum to Hin Excellency the Japanese Amb- iesador to Colombia, dated October 29, 1965 on the same subject. An increase of this reacti”
“13-00000, TOP SECRET DINAR CUBAN AIR FLIGHT CONNECTIONS: 1 i] 0 ~ (Spain) has approved regularly scheduled Havana-Madrid flights by CUBANA airlines, according to an intercepted message Of 7 De cember. It was previously reported that the the Spanish Spanish Government ”
“14-00000 - 3 - The government purchasing organization buys merchandise from foreign companies, but fails to inform CUFLET of the date on which the cargo is to be loaded. All attempts to establish this are to no avail. Then one day the buying agency serves last-minute notic”