14-00000 ee ee nee eer a wee ee - = * e * ‘ ~~ & aid . * - ee ‘ 2 Sen “s go s . ~ en af. 4 wl > Pinar del Rfo Provinces Havdiia Provincet. Ly Aha Ce ae Bihar el fea, ba, + Matanzas Province? dea Villas Provincef, Comginy. Province? Orsente Provines” a 4s bow ee ¥ + 7 ‘ . . S in CO OREO  HAAERDE Lo “Pinar 461 Rfo Province? . Havana Provinest - : Matanzas Frovince? _ me a las Villas Province: ; Camgusy Province? . a Oriente Province! | Pinar del Rfo Province: fecteas _. Hones ‘In *Regionalt 4 t 22 dairies MOre- partially’ affects, ‘and 9 vere, deg Several 1 goctebarne were damaged, _ 30,000: ataere werd > sericusly affeted. .. , a @ riusPOnnaret None. , Several portions of’; ‘the higtvays. running parallel “to. the railway ‘had’ been washed aways ; Hoes ne . - ; . os Rone. - oe _'Teetonalt Palra-San ‘tails, 3 bridges were Same the *radlways bridge at. Central Lea Reinaldo, Alto Songo 1s unpassable. . From Santiago de Cuba to Camaguey, ratlvayivere | damaged. aa HOB-SPECIF IED INDUSTRIAL PcrLines. Fs cone ae wee , . : : Te Feo Lipes®™ Petinery {fcrner Reso-Belot), was seriously affected, vhen the line of 110,000 volts ~ went down, - Outeide of failure, . the Capital there wee @ two Gay power cs In £1 Mégano, 6 workshops were. damaged. ie ‘Regional’ Cuantdnamo 1 food store wae destroy. In ‘Regional! Guantdnamo, 7 vorkehope vere damaged, ~: 0} . OTHERS Pinar del Rfo, 14,800 houses vere
14-00000 damaged, 3 warehouses -~were dariniged: in "regtoa 2 2 e « wo foro = thavaiia’Brovinest ~_” eg houses were s ougletaly unter ‘ater, ‘crops: oa Matanzas Province? Kno. oo . a 7 ' las Villaa Frovince? 2 wareHourés of fertilizers were damged in El Mé= ; Camaguey Province? = <ticaro, Quince y Medio and Central. Venezuela, 'Re= . , ; gioual’ Ciego de an | inundations and 4 damages in - oy t *. . ... . _, Venezuela sugar mill. re ~ i - Griente Province? In. "Regional! Guantanamo 77 kns, of fences + were tis e e : destroyed, and & pastures were damaged, Other : i. . damiges caused by the rains weré: 200 tons of hay SO my { oo '. and several pigpens, plus 3'warehouses, 260 bagsaf SO : Se . fertilizer, and 115 'quintales' (*) of cotton sedis =o Oo-c2i i. eo” : Los In 'Régional!. Palma—San luis 60 houses were dea—- . troyéd and 20“farn houses vere also destroyed. oo Heavy patna affected 67 tons of fertilizer, oF : 3. (*) One e “quintal”" equals 100 © Ibe-y 0 or rt ‘errobas'. : aa CO . se Hote? All other crops 5 suffered the regular danage caused by ‘a -fjurrieane, Le, = : Mees . ‘broken branches, scattered. fruits, plants destroyed, and the known m domnge: 3 aa caused by heavy rains, strong winds, and flooding, == __ = * ; . loans . e
14-00000 “[PATH"GP WRRICAME “IMZ® eT TRAVECTORIA DEL CICLON > Ines SOEs, Cubsn OF ficlat hewapaper, Granting Movahe, Octo, %. 16¢ "S RYBLANATIOM' OF WAP. © BXPLICACION DEL MAPA. xK Sugar cone Cafe ‘ee agde ar, 4 Pine-grovas = Pineres, ‘ i $§ Produce « Frutos, Menores, aye Henequen fiber ‘2 Honequén, GRICUL TURAL PRODUCTS AND-HOW | & Coffer ~-caté. ot é Pineapple - Pilla, E ARF ECT ED:BY HURRICANE MINE Z* ‘imp Cattie '« Bstiedoy : e Cora © Males, | MB Tebateo  Tehacoy . Ax Beane © Frifoles, f _ 7 ns . ; . ‘ <p 4 & BP Pananes © Prétends. @ Potatoes = Pépat. i eens DUCTOS AGRICGLAS DE CUBA Y> LES AFECTO'EL CICLON “INES” . fal] ‘Rice. = Arror. a © cocoa » Cacac. ; . CONOMIC RESEARCH BUREA redtete @ other, ‘fruits © , JO} Charceal = Carbén wegetal. .-- Laces wee cer tee “OB HILE : . ‘Cftricos vy otras frutas, ; 199.8. Ge. . Ge Pork - Ganado: Porcine, thea, F lertdq . + :
14-00000 we am . “ : -~ = . BULGARIA REJECTS CUBIN SUCIR SRIRGENT en OB bast month thé Econemte Research Bureau (ERB) iergrted the establ ishnent of. - ¥ * F af _ Tie: -phenonends. OF declining qutity” of. ‘Catan: suger as - & her. po: ap fas rejection of ‘the first Cuban si-ar shipment to ~ : this country from- ‘the 1966 harvest, This rejection, which occured last August, . — * : ves aué 6 the high moisture content cf the Cuban sugar, The source of this : information is the Cuban Institute for Sugar Research. i % t b CUBAN CENTRAL COMMITTES MEMBER RECOGNIZES MISTAKES . ; a Carlos. Rafael ‘Roar fguedz,; ‘éne. of the’ key figures of the Partido Socialista ; ~ . Popular (name under’ wiich the Cuban Communist Party operated fron 1939 to 1962, - fornér Head of INRA (Castro's National Agrarian Reform Institute), and pregente 8 - ly a member of the Central Committee of ‘the Cuban Cozrunist Party, was inter= ae viewed by Josef. Tiiner, correspondent for Budapest's NEFSZAVA, -on September 16, foe 19665. ‘The Economic Research Buresn bas conéidered Titeér's ‘statesents a sound ey explanation ofthe real econonile ‘situation existing in Cuba. Therefore, we be~ et lieve ‘our {readers wall be ‘interested in excerpts ‘fron NEPSZAVA's story of ite Bo : “6 exert oir greatest efforts in the sugar industiy: Despite this - um a a. : fortunately-—- we failed to attain our objectives this year anit did- “not even . ‘" £: . . ‘@amé close to the 1965. results, prisarily because of natural ‘disasters, partig ot : Pe tlarly a great drought, We: would like to harvest 6:5 million tons. of. ‘suger cane _ oo 7 od. ~ | Bext year and attaizi a record output by 1968,"  ) * : z * ‘ . ue "ye oR? Sie "Industrial and agricultural productivity diminished a after the revolution, . “ Be “+ Many people think that one mugt work less under socialism than under capitalism + ge = and, conseduetitly, do not fulfill the legel working time. It is also true that L ; v ie partly due to the fact that werk is not organised with sufficient care, ; - _. particularly in agriculture, Moreover, serious problers are caused ty the fact “gs goo. that. the working people are not paid according to their output. Remineration ota 3 - aecording to output, is, nevertheless, applied in agriculture, but we have net we eRh tees ‘ managed to introduce it in industry yet.*® _ 2 . oo i Skilled personne]? , ;: - . oe, . 7 - i "The shortage of experts is @ very y grsat problem. Tengine | “whet tresendous oe pO (*) ERB note: This constitutes a contradiction of Castro's stated goals. The a8 Perspective Sugar Plan celled for a 7.5 million-ton mark for . = 19%7 ami Castro has stressed this figure in his speeches over and over again, sabotegnal #4
14-00000 + * . o - atertcunties we mst overcon? ‘an this respect’ when, for exazgile,. ane ‘aptitate : . ~” teat cétried Gut in ovey 2;000' state ‘farms. tio ‘years ago.revealed that 60 pef= 6. 2, gent of the héads of. farns. and :80 percént of the heads of work brigades aia. Foot ae ; — éven have “thires ) years ‘of. ‘leiientary schooling, ee , an i ', Textile: ae - ; : cae Pa 8 re 7 8 Lf taba “is a country wadly off in raw materials, whitch « ate also very diffi= 7k ’ cult to procure, . The position of irdistry’ie closely Linked to the disengage» - ment of the United” States. The Americans established factories and also pro= 2 vided - raw mterials befora the revolution in Cuba, The factories belong te us today, but we met fend for ourselves with respect to raw mterials. What this é means is faithfully reflected by the fact that raw materials constitute 50 per= “ cent of cur overall imports. Not even in this way can we meet our requirements, Ez ‘and, therefore, 40 to 60 of the capacity of our factories and plants lie idle,® og Agrarian seforg! re -_ Se . -"Ye have not atateituted Yana arong. the Peasants tut we have ‘gatabliohed tee state farna, so-called: people's fares, % © rr ce The ERB's corment fs that a Cuban Communist talks more hodestly to a Commins - nist “Hungarian correspondent than the régine. talka to the ® worlds ; "FREE WORLD SHIPPING 10 CUBA DOW. 65.88 so ; . . & total of ‘fourteen Western vessels called ‘on Rea Guban a parte during the ‘month of Auguate co ; < | “ way cad 2 “ 4 as : The August 1966 total Sopreveats a “arep of task th Western: shipping to Pid i z-- “Oita ‘when compared with the.. eat & 1963: total, and a arop: of 65.8% when com _ pe a _ Pared with the August 1964 total ot. ‘ 2 ; | in august's list, Great Britain’ continued to lead the raritime nth colunp - - ‘ nn . “fate with eight vessels, followed By Greece with three, and ‘Lebanon, France and A BE _ Tely! ‘with one vessel each, — “, Bo, August 1963: 24 vessela - . on Avguet 1965: 22 wessela-. > ‘ eS August 1966: 14 vessels {all time low for - august) Ee i 878 FREE WORLD VESSELS PLEDCED OUT OF CUB4 SEA TRUE ‘ = The Maritime Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce said on Oc= ee ‘tober S$, 1966, that ninety-six ships have been removed from MA's “Cuba Blacke = last® on promises by controlling parties to keep out of the Cube sea trade @ By _ total of 878 vessel3, which are either oxned or operated by there parties, = There are presently 254 ships im the MA's “Cuba Blacklist", representing 3 1,813,855 grosa tona. a be
é i FRANCO $HIRPING. ‘CONTINUES IN THE CUBA SEA TRADE rs a: : _. ¥ranco Shipping Company has béen. responsible. for- 18.1% of the totad Free. - OB 7 World gee” trade-with Conmintot Cate. foe the. Janvary-Septenber- 1966 periods - Z The ERB. denminced the operations of. Franco Shippis g Co. ‘aid its nine ube ne, : go sidieries th Creeéé and Great Britain in Auguat 1966 (#) and “now it wants to |. stress- that FRANCO SHIPPING has continued @nge ged in -the Ciba trade as ER's - » . statistics showt Es . _ ty - - * Januzry-Soptenber 1 _ ae & ’ Pree World vessela 17 . 100.08 fe Franco Shipping vessels 4S Lat TERS ay Rote: . Breakdown of Franico ehipping Co.'s vessels by registry? a), Greate SO 17 : ae c) 11,7%9 CRT Tanker. ~ po epee oe ‘and Finnish flags? §:--° | woo Sa eS ' a) ARETI under Cypriot aan aan ro “Por full details see? “ Beonomte Antal Agence Report ¥ Vol. It Ro, Boy randy ™ a Flas, August 2, 1966, : be, Z . 2 RAS Eras, 9 Path ase open eapae 43 a eae -BRAND NEW 9,500 TO ‘cua! FREIGHTER. GOES ; AOROUND The brand new 9,500-ten Cuban freighter MAFFO went aground on September o. 26th 1966 half-an-hour out of Casilda port in Cuba while en route to the soutg ~~ || eastern Cuban port of Guayabel where she was scheduled to have loaded sugar fer ~~ Japan. This was the first comercial voyage of the MAY MAFFO as she hed mde - eee) ealy one trip prior to this voyage which trip had been to deliver her to “Cuba hoe, after her construction in Cadiz, Spain, on February 9, 1966. ley a vhich hit this area with full force, probatly contributed Hurricane Inez, to the accident. By October 18, 1965, it was reported that the M/V MAFFO hal ee been refloated. . . ct
14-00000 Peur LEER, we 89S a man AIEEE SSP RAMA yy epee ot ' SARTRE REE ARLEN mH CLR ester Asien yo : va -. . . i . - . . . 4 . ne Dd 1 . ” + , 4 ~ Sh) NERS EEA < toa, — t ey 3 gee REDE REL ’ € ° e ” e « p oom, oo a * . 3 ort eos . . Py 33 ry During ‘the last motiths, the Ouban - -govoernnent has had difticulty in keeping ats vessels afldat, ‘The M/V ARACELIO IGLESIAS suffered severe damages after. - crashing into the Norwegian Wy NIDAREID in, the Panama Sanna last June . u, - _gian MV ESTARFORT er ‘the egdst of Holland, and; on April 27, 1966, another nowlystullt Spanish vessel, the M/V. LA PLATA, while-6n a trip to Jagan, vae in- volved in.an accident, also in the Panama Canal, with the M/V HONG KQNO AMBER of Liberian registry. The ERB night eomient that comrade e Redrfgues" e remarks to the Hungarian cerrespendent of preblene affecting Cutan industry and agriculture might woll have beech applied to Giban 1 ening : as well. _ 3 \ -. +g The. above information has been obtained © from ¥elieble sources, both from Cuba and the Free orld. wor * additional detatts address youre | self toh Econonic Research "Buresia UNIDAD REVOLUCION RIA ; 10 §.E. 9th Strest ‘ ~ Mant, Fla, AR, BS. ‘Re oe j MV ORTENTE was 5 éurk after colliding vith the Norvee
14-00000 2 2U39L a ( a é - oe we. = é , . who ‘ : \ : 4 ~ ment Pad ta Hee aha ny Joust on “Sap caniatr & oe 4 ” Seam taniatsen a2 Aba Het veg 7 wii kaw Veen ont! cote » at vlna on wma Roe Sr ebrwactes sevens ‘ : pale y ao Foe we wae t 2 F 17.120.-26 Ow IS 2,300 ON ate, Ha TBE THe BABAGE . Nd 6 309 TONS cpa tu Is $e. 2 cnop, MOST vate SAlB, i t “SA . eitHut re ST. SE AS GN nucevnnd Boo i ara t t \ ake hs i vig! ; a } . a . tain Ye ate asc RNR pf PLCS f= “th” Uta BES tues Sater Sigtbe loge a5 PE acs Sa "R abe Pe, : a cs As "ig he a ; : wilt 242 Sloan. sue ee a pened
slo O0.3 uFGA-ae 3a _ } ~~ Att. #3 UFGA-26348 -+ ne & Ba — economic intelligence owpwee MAILING ADORESS ~ Boa 3946. EROM THE UR. ECONOMIC RESEARCH BUREAU _ Mian, Plecida PHONE: MOVIMIENTO UNIDAD REVOLUCIONARIA (UR) 973 . 9033 - “ “LOBSTER BKPORTS CONTE “F0 CAUEE PROPLEIS for CUBA. ‘Comrercial gources in Canada and confirmed by information obtained in New York repért that the Carindian an? Frerich authorities have launched invest'pations _ into the recoipt of bad lobrter in beth Canada_end France. The ERB has now learn~ ed thst a shipmont of more than eight thousand cans of Cuban lobster arrived in France on October 6th aboard the £.f. K\THERINA. This shipment was consimed to "Fourchtéin et Cie." and. win imbeundied in its entirety by tho French customs au- thorities: who observed that this:shipment contained swollen tins. Upon investi« gation, inpurities wore discovered, the lotster was found to have besn overcociiady _and in some cases gray spots wore. abserved. ae "Norld Seafood Digtribisters®, a Yontieal- firm that Amporta Cuban lobsters for sale in. Canada .and, for trahschipment to Europe, continues to have its diffig “subties with: CUB EXPORT. “ERB Cubati eormercial scurees. in ‘Europe report that Sam . -Beinor, an officer 6f “World. Seafood’, is. complaining to-CUB EXPORT that CUBA EXPORT is un“ercutting’ Beiner's prices quoted to the Antwerp firm of "Hallewyck®, "Hallewyck" appears to be a mfjor ‘European: ‘account for "World Seafood" and in” order to protect, this buainest. Beiner vas forced: to: tell CUBAEXPORT that "World Saafood* miy be forced to ‘quote MBaYowyek® @ost pices for direct rhipment of dbsters from Brazil unless CUBAEXPORT and Caban: ‘commorcial. representatives in . Paris and The Hague’ cease-. these’ antics, ‘Thts afopute. involves more than two .. thousand cartons of lobster, "| ‘ CE ' World Seafood" maintains ¢ a eticck of Cuban iobetére in Intverp. “The ERB ‘has _learned: that Cuban commercial authorities in Europe have issuéd iiitten instruce ‘tions that in effect claim that more than one thousand carténe of lobster in this stock are under ‘the control of CUBIEXPOST, "bon learning this "World Seafood" ine _ formed CUB AEXPORT in Havana that it will cause-the arrest of any person removing “~ ‘€hese lobsters without pre-payment. The person concerned with attempted removal - - of these lobsters ie a Mr. J, M, Sclwars who appeare to be relearing "World Seaq- food*'s lebsters by giving promissory notes which are not puaranteed hy ay bank ~ “oF other institution, "World Seafood" is umerstandably seexing pre-payment or at .. - least = fuaranteed note of payment. By late September this dispute reached the point where "World Seafood" refused to assume responsibility for a sale of more than a thousand cartons of lobster race by Schwars acting on CIBAEXPORT instruce tions. CUsAS\PORT counter-claims that Schwarz ig "World Seafood"'s ® agent in these sales which, of course, “World Seafood® denies. As if these were not enough problers, "World Seafood" realizes that it can - buy similar lobster in New York.at lover prices and is therefore insisting upon an additional discount from CUBAFXPORT in order to compensatc: for this differ-= ence, ra a ‘COPY 1G2120-26 ste OT pe soe er nba aa Sve Hh nyt me ate et Bee Ps Fs tor Orie ale ahr ee eendionm act « EEMED On Apre ent mages = aE laet oa ee
14-00000 Maley EAU Pd fare ey NMR HM hhc toe RT ENCES mes yy eS LHS mn ' ‘ 4 redht run FERRE RRR ot EN RNIN SD II ke Mont, Fla., October 31, 1966.~ 2 One of the trade ranes teing used -in Zurope te "Caribbean Queen", This. pare ‘ticular labsl is fer canned Cuban lobeter an. is being marketed by the firm of, - sacques Fourchetein which ‘is algo having ite difficulties ‘in this business. The ERB haa locked into thé teckgrourd of Mr. £m Beiner ‘and of hie. conipasiy, ' "World Seafood Distritutors". —Reparding the company, little can be-found. other- than. the fact that ite office 4a in Beisier'a home in Montreal. The address 4s. 890... Prazer -Avénue, Hontreal, FQ, Canada. Trae directories of Cariadian firma and sim - jler aources available here and. in Hew ‘York do not liet this firm. Regarding Bei- © . Mer, the ERB can state that Beiner hag. teen engaged, at least since 1962, in com- mercial activities invélving Cuta, Over the years hig interests have been purcha- sing frogs’ legs, lobster, shrimp, fruite, candies, and.vegetables. He is known to think favorably of the Cutan regine ard in late September 1962 Beiner was opep iy discusaing oconomic and social progrees being rade-in Cuba while on a visit to Hiemi, Beiner is characterized by people now in Miami and whe have Imown him in. ; the past in Cuba ag being an opportunist who was active’ in the Havana blick tiara kote j ‘Notes For additional inforration on this- ratter seat Beoncnte Intetitgenc Repert, % Vol, II, No, 2 dated September aa 19%... UR. Economie Rezéarch Bureats. bea ee get ¥ 4 Asana eve The ie Mewwestte—