NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY THURSDAY 24 AUGUST 1978[SANITIZED] - 1978/08/24

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02997088
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: August 24, 1978

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The
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THURSDAY 24 AUGUST 1978 VOLUME 5, NUMBER 198
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2 THURSDAY 24 AUGUST 1978
THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY
One casualty of the Festival may be
Cuban-Argentine relations. Castro, in ad-
dressing the closing session of the
Festival, again included Argentina in the
list of Latin American countries he believed
merited opprobrium for continued
abuses of human rights. Castro's specifici-
ty was not accidental. He has long been
frustrated by having to deal with a
government he believes is responsible for
the disappearance of two Cuban
diplomats in Buenos Aires in 1976.
Castro apparently believes that
relations with Argentina will not improve.
He reportedly told leaders of the Latin
American delegations at the Festival that
while Havana would take no action to
break with Buenos Aires, he would not
care if the Argentine Government took
such an initiative. Castro's reported state-
ment is in line with Cuba's attitudes
toward diplomatic splits; with the single
exception of the break with Israel in 1973,
the Cubans in recent years have preferred
to provoke other countries into ter-
minating relations with Havana.
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