CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A018100090002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 12, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 30, 1971
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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30 January 1971
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CUBA-CARIBBEAN: Havana is again trying to drum up
trade. Page 9)
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CUBA-CARIBBEAN: Havana is again trying to
drum up trade in -t e Caribbean.
Two members of a. Cuban commercial delegation
on their way to Chile reportedly met with repre-
sentatives of two of Jamaica's leading import firms
in Kingston on 19 and 20 January. The Cubans of-
fered to sell shrimp and lobster at well under the
market price; payment would be made in pounds ster-
ling. Transportation arrangements would be handled
by Havana through chartered cargo ships or Cubana
Airlines. The Cubans also offered one of the firms
unmarked fresh and frozen seafood products for re-
sale in the US if the Jamaicans would provide the
transportation. The burden of persuading the Ja-
maican Government to permit the imports was left
to the importers.
The negotiations are further evidence of Ha-
vana's low-key campaign to establish commercial
and cultural contacts with its neighbors in the
Caribbean as a first step toward eventually
achieving diplomatic relations with independent
states. So far, Cuba has developed limited trade
with Martinique and Guadeloupe and achieved in-
formal ties with Trinidad and Tobago. Although
Cuban attempts to deliver cargoes to consignees in
some of the English-speaking islands of the Lesser
Antilles were rebuffed last year, the Jamaican Gov-
ernment, which maintains consular relations with
Havana to protect about 20,000 Jamaican nationals
in Cuba, may be more inclined to cooperate if ap-
proached by the local firms.
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