14-00000 | | wisheak RESEARCH LV CHE A i. eo . # 4. The firet national mevtias of the fational iosesren Institute CLVIM) was neld in aucust 137% nad, uccoriizg . to a dnvana radio brocdeast ssonitered by tae Bee on | 23 Ecteber, gona 155 fapars relates ta tae naacerul uss of the atom were srecented.. Une of these napers haa. gealt with “tho ddentificetion of tron ani manganese in minerals by the ase of noutrons” and ansthar wWibh reveargh in Menancting tae eiysieal rrocertics of bayasse-to sive it solidity and jurwility; in_order to aealeve tais tue’. ie - ‘4 . : ec: came gates Set Renee . { bagasae was treated with muslear radiation"... Tso eo, i. newspaper, Jvuvantud webealdeé, raported on gf August tat a. / -. paper eas gresested at the wane ceutiny ou tis subjeat’ of { -. thermonuclear powerplants 97 Herio FLEITES, 3a oF WA ) Sepurtment of Future vevelonaant of the iy pres. Concolrdace Jf. de la Flectricidad., FLELTES estinared 178% as the mo we earliest possible date for werk to begin on cuch a plante- 0. By. @he 23 cetober broadcast, nade by Hamuel duan SaMiZey  @ladsed that research inte the use’of nuclear casrgy for” ‘gconomie growth curing the Previsus Live COINY ees fo. .° produsing th. necessary technicul aud seisntifie hnowledges ‘ot . Cuban lesders exvacted to have muscle wr plants ceacsatiag electricity in vuba in the near suture.  jiore than 10 | inatitutes, incluiing JWLN, were involved iu the worke 3, A Prensa Latina report, ‘istelinead loacow, avpearet “dn .cranas of 10 vecenter quotiag Oh sugaian VWeeesinister Of Ghexsy and Blestrificatica,s Nikolai 2 MATTS4@, as 7 aung:nmeing the vcrojact study rer an *atonelectric™ vlant ‘dn cuba...  Yuo plant souid hava two reictora oF +O Or. S60 megawatts. © (fhe provosal lor such 3 study was . -pregunably discussed by tae agasian enersg dologution, . led by tne iinistes of ucnerey nad clectrisication, Piotr S& MEPOROZHENI, whica visited Cuba in the yevgons woek Gf. Ustbober HIS; Lt would algo asen probable tact tac | project was inciuded in th: agenda deat wits im the first wook of uecember bs the fifth Cuban/oovict mestiny of the Conaiasicn for fconoale and SclentificsTeshnical collaboration which was led on the cuseian side by Viasicir W WOVikoV, .. Vico-iresidunt of the vouncdl of Ministers). & As I have aleeady resorted, a US professor of nuclear physics, Jerone STEFFEWS, is in Cuba at oresent, lecturing - a> favana Universitye ‘bere muy, of Cournds be no . -  gounection between. SZEFFENS und tie cuclear rececrch: giready taxing plsce in vuba sor Suereonisheuy power plandde © However, wien L net SIKFFENWS briofly. on 7 ucceaber (oe Log - alre.dy cetoia wile sose three deys @urlier) he sald le would like to moet umsin at my office, or oocislly, as there wero several matters corcerming hia work in cuba wadeh- we (the mission) sigat find of intercebe nicole SZELG at Cleese e. vee
14-00000 he ad we . e eft. 6, ge te - ° : i a oy . : . ° . ‘ er % later told we that she o2 iver STEFFEWS ay nane ani. offica telephone nucber a3 be had asked Zor thea; she - gcled rather systericugly that whatever LU van Ge wisnei to discuss was a matter between th: tuo of us, ond ‘she 52 no wise to be involved (this was anyway stating the obvious as che was leavint teo days laterse -i Rope to sea STEEFENWS ayain and will report anytaing ol intercste © , : a 5. Since drafting the above I have spoxen to Dorothy SPELPTERS on. their hotel teleohone on 17 December. she said that they were leaving for Barbados on 18 Jeceaber and. so were unable to accept the invitation I had given then. .. Dhe also remarked that the matter her husband had wished > | $0 discuss had lost its urgency: it could walt until their — next visit in 1975~ a . ms ge . wt f e : * s e a a : . * ie eo oe e . wane wee oe eo 5 ° .. 3 eo ow e