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# INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORTCENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCYThis material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.S-E-C-R-E-TNO FOREIGN DISSEMCOUNTRY Mexico/Cuba/MaliREPORT NO. CS-3/539,466SUBJECT Request of Cuban GovernmentTo the Republic of Mali for aResident AmbassadorDATE DISTR. 7 March 1963NO. PAGES 1REFERENCES RDDATE OFINFO.18 February 1963PLACE & Mexico, Mexico CityDATE ACQ. (20 February 1963)FIELD REPORT NO. HMM-7045THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVESOURCE: Paras. 1,3: Person (B) with good contacts in the Cuban Embassyin Mexico City.Para. 2: A neutralist diplomat (C) in Mexico City, fromSori Coulibaly.Appraisal of Content: 2.1. On 18 February 1963 Sori Coulibaly, the Ambassador of the   Republic of Mali to the United Nations and to Cuba, 1 and   Mamadou Traore, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Mali   Mission to the United Nations, arrived in Mexico from Habana,   Cuba. Coulibaly told members of the Cuban Embassy in   Mexico City that he had spoken with Raul Roa, Cuban Foreign   Minister, who asked Coulibaly to take steps to have the   Government of Mali send a resident Ambassador to Cuba.2. Coulibaly said that the Cubans had put pressure on him to   open an office in Habana and that they had in fact given him   a building for this purpose. However, Coulibaly said that   he did not see how Mali could afford to open an office in   Habana, in view of the fact that he had hardly enough money   to operate the Mali Mission to the United Nations.23. Coulibaly and Traore left Mexico City on 20 February for   New York. Coulibaly carried Mali diplomatic passport No. 23;   Traore carried diplomatic passport No. 42.1. Headquarters Comment. Coulibaly presented his credentials   in Cuba on 13 February 1963.2. Source Comment. Coulibaly confided that he had requested   50 million Mali francs (about $203,000.00) as an annual   budget for the operation of the Mali Mission to the   United Nations; that he had been allotted only one-tenth   of that amount for the first quarter of 1963; and that   he had not received even that.S-E-C-R-E-TNO FOREIGN DISSEM| STATE       | X          | ARMY  | X   | NAVY | X   | AIR  | X   | NSA | X   | OCR | X   | DIA | X   | FOI || ----------- | ---------- | ----- | --- | ---- | --- | ---- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- || REPCINCLANT | CINCARIB # | TREAS | X   | USIA | X   | I&NS | X   |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |(Note: Washington distribution indicated by "X": Field distribution by "#")INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT| CI/ICG                         | 1                                        | AF/BAKO       | 1          | WH/CA/PROP | 1   | CX-164 DRHARK          |             || ------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------- | ------------- | ---------- | ---------- | --- | ---------------------- | ----------- || FI/SPOG                        | 2                                        | AF/SPS        | 1          | WH/FI      | 1   | HMM-7045               |             || AF/345/R                       | 3                                        | SAS/R         | 11         | WH/3/M     | 2   | NO PROJECT             | (LITAMIL-9) || AF/COP/CA                      | 1                                        | SAS/WAVE      | 1          | WH/MEXI    | 1   | CS-3/539,466           |             || AF/3                           | 1                                        | WH/R          | 1          | WH/PACY    | 1   | COORDINATING RELEASING |             || TOTALS                         | DISSEN SEC 1, IE 2, CI 3, FI 5, AF 6 (1) | LIAISON *     | AF/3/R LNG |            |     |                        |             || SAS 11 (1), WH 5 (2), PRIORITY | PV/SPOG VR; de                           |               |            |            |     |                        |             || FORM 3-62                      | USE PREVIOUS EDITIONS                    | SAS/R (draft) |            |            |     |                        |             |