REISSUE/CORRECTION: APPOINTMENT OF FORMER CUBAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO SENIOR UNESCO POST

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• Document Release Date: February 17, 2022
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• Publication Date: September 25, 1998

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45/10C/NF) SUBJ: REISSUE/CORRECTION: APPOINTMENT OF
FORMER CUBAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO SENIOR UNESCO
POST
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Date Published: 25-Sep-1998 15:45:00
Date Received: 25-Sep-1998 16:48:12
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ECRE T--NOFORN--ORCON 01ST: 25 SEPTEMBER 1998
(U) THIS REPORT IS CLASSIFIED SECRET US ONLY ORCON IN ITS ENTIRETY. REISSUE
FORCORRECTION
(U) REPORT CLASS SECRE TNOT RELEASABLE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS--
DISSEMINATION AND EXTRACTION OF INFORMATION CONTROLLED BY ORIGINATOR.
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(SHOC/NF) NOTICE: THIS IS A CORRECTED VERSION OF A REPORT WITH THE SAME
HEADING WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED AS CIA 979654 DTG 171904Z SEP 98.1N THE
SECOND SENTENCE OF PARAGRAPH ONE "SERVED AS CUBAN FOREIGN MINISTER" HAS
BEEN CORRECTED TO READ "SERVED AS CUBAN VICE FOREIGN MINISTER." RECIPIENTS
SHOULD DESTROY ALL HARD COPIES OF THE ORIGINAL REPORT AND REMOVE THE
ORIGINAL REPORT FROM ALL COMPUTER HOLDINGS. RECIPIENTS WILL ALSO WISH TO
ENSURE THAT ANY CITATION OF THIS INFORMATION IN FINISHED INTELLIGENCE
PUBLICATIONS DRAWS ON THE CORRECTED VERSION OF THIS REPORT RATHER THAN
THE EARLIER VERSION, WHICH SHOULD BE PURGED FROM ALL FILES AND COMPUTER
SYSTEMS.
(SHOC/NF) 1.
UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND
CULTURAL ORGANIZATION (UNESCO) DIRECTOR GENERAL (DG) FEDERICO ((MAYOR))
HAD RECENTLY HAND-PICKED RAUL ((ROA)) KOURI FOR THE POSITION OF SPECIAL
ADVISOR TO THE UNESCO DG FOR LATIN AMERICAN AFFAIRS. MOST RECENTLY, FROM
1994 TO 1998, ROA WAS CUBA'S AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE; HE PREVIOUSLY SERVED AS
CUBAN VICE FOREIGN M NISTER AND HAVANA'S AMBASSADOR TO UNESCO.
DESCRIBED ROA AS A HARD-CORE MARXIST-LENINIST AND A
CONFIDANT OF CUBAN PRESIDENT FIDEL ((CASTRO)) RUZ AND OTHER TOP CUBAN
COMMUNIST PARTY LEADERS. AT UNESCO, ROA WILL REPLACE FORMER GUATEMALAN
CULTURE MINISTER ANAISABEL ((PRENDA-FLORES)), WHO IS DISAPPOINTED WITH HER
TRANSFER. FOR THE TIME BEING, UNESCO DG MAYOR DOES NOT WANT THE ROA
APPOINTMENT TO BE MADE PUBLIC.
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(SHOC/NF) 2. COMMENT: MAYOR'S SELECTION OF ROA WILL ADD TO THE (b)(1)
CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING THE UNESCO DG'S INNER CIRCLE OF HIGHLY (b)(3)
INFLUENTIAL AND EXCEPTIONALLY WELL-PAID SPECIAL ADVISORS, WHOSE NUMBER IS
SEEN BY MANY AS TOO LARGE. MAYOR'S SELECTION OF ROA UNDOUBTEDLY WILL BE
WELL-RECEIVED BY CASTRO, WITH WHOM MAYOR SHARES A WARM RELATIONSHIP.)
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