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Document date: 07/16/1973
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MDC, DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS, CUBA, VENEZUELA

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COUNTRY L VENEZUELA/CUBA

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STATUS OF NEGOTIATIONS FOR RE-ESTABLISHMENTS

EXPELATIONS BE THEN VENEZUELA AND CUBA HICH

INCLUDE

AN

SAGREEMENT FOR VENEZUELA IO PRO VI DE

PETROLEUM TO CUBA: AND A POSSIBLE CONFIDENTIAL

ARRANGEMENT CONCERNING THE CUBANACHRISTIAN

DEMOCRAT MOVEMENT

ALL FBI INFORMATION CONTAINED

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A BUSINESSMAN WITH A BROAD RANGED

OF POLITICAL

BUSINESS AND SOCIAL CONTACTS, HE

VERY CLOSE

TO TOP LEADERS OF THE SOCIAL CHRISTIAN (COPIE!

PARIY. HIS RELIABILITY HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED, JUL 27 1973

HE RECEIVED THE INFORMATION FROM A TOP COPEL LÈADER

1. VENEZUELA IS AGREEABLE-TO AND IS PLANNING TO

PROVIDE DIL TO CUBA AS PART OF THE AGREEMENT WHICH

DKS

WILL ESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO

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COUNTRIESE ACCORDING TO A HIGH-RANKING OFFICIAL OF

THE GOVERNING VENEZUELAN SOCIAL CHRISTIAN (COPET)

PARTY WHO ALSO IS INTIMATELY INVOLVED IN THE CURRENT

NEGOTLATIONS FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF SUCH RELATIONS,

THIS UFEICIAL SAID IN EARLY JULY 1973 THAT-NEGOTIATIONS

BETWEEN THE THO COUNTRIES NOW HAVE ADVANCED TO THE

STAGE WHERE IT IS APPROPRIATE AND NECESSARY THAT THEY

BE CONDUCTED AT THE CHIEF OF GOVERNMENT LEVELA

ACCORDINGLY, VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT

RAFAEl

I ALDERA

WILL STOP BRIEFLY IN CUBA ON HIS WAY BACK BROM ATTEND®

ING THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING IN

NEW YORK IN SEPTEMBER TO PERSONALLY DISCUSS VENEZUELAN/

CUBAN RELATIONS WITH CUBAN PRIME MINISTER FIDEL

(TDFIRDB-315/Q6639-73)

CASIR O RUEI CELELD COMMENT EVC-67505 ROM THIS

SAME SOURCE AND A USUALLY RELIABLE SECURITY SERVICE

SOURCE, REPORTS CALDERA'S PLAN TO STOP IN CUBA:!

2• THE SHIPMENT OF VENEZUELAN OIL TO CUBA

WILL BE ONE OF THE PRINGIPAL TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED

BY THE IWO LEADERS, ALTHOUGH THIS OIL WILL BE FOR

CONSUMPTION IN CUBA VENEZUELA WILL BE REIMBURSED FOR

SECRE

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REPORT ON

SOVIET NEGOTIATIONS WITH VENEZUELA FOR

PURCHASE OF PETROLEUM FOR SHIPMENT TO CUBA, BASED

ON THIS AND PREVIOUS REPORTS& THE THIRD COUNTRY REFERRED

TO BY THE COPEL OFFICIAL IS PROBABLY THE USSR.!

ALTHOUGH CUBA HAS LITTLE THAT COULD ADEQUATELY COMPEN-

SATE VENEZUELA FOR OIL, THE ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMERCIAL

RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES IS PLANNED PRIOR

TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS.

3. (FIELD COMMENT! A SOURCE WHO IS BELIEVED TO

PROVIDE ACCURATE INFORMATION REPORTED IN EARLY JULY

THAI HE HAD BEEN TOLD BY LUIS

O VARO HEAD OF THE

SENATE CUMMISSION ON MINES AND HYDROCARBONS THAT

ONE DE PRESIDENT CALDERA'S OBJECTIVES IN MAKING THE

•TECHNICAL STOP IN CUBA IS TO DISCUSS THE SALE OF

VENEZUELAN PETROLEUM TO CUBA, HE SAID DISCUSSIONS ON

THE SALE HAVE BEEN HELD ALREADY BUT

THE VENEZUELAN

GOVERNMENT HAS DECIDED TO POSTPONE ANY ACTION ON THE

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NEGOTIATIONS UNTIL THE CALDERA STOP IN CUBA TAKES PLACE.

THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT EXPECTS THAT CASTRO WILL

RAISE THE SUBUECT DURING HIS TALK WITH CALDERA AND

THE LATTER PLANS TO RESPOND POSITIVELY TO THE CUBAN PROPOSITION

FOR SUCH A SALE TOVAR SAID COPEI HAS ARRANGED FOR THE MEETING

BETWEEN THE TWO LEADERS WITH CAMPAIGN BENEFIYS FOR THE DECEMBER

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN MIND. HE SAID GONZALONG A ROSA:

BUSTILLOS, VENEZUELAN AMBASSADOR TO THE ORGANIZA

OF AMERICAN STATES, IS HANDLING THE ARRANGEMENTS ON

THE PERTOLEUM SALE.?

A• ONE POINT WHICH HAS NOT YET BEEN: RESOLVED

IN CONNECTION WITH THE NEGOTIATIONS IS THE STATUS OF

THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS IN CUBAR AND THIS ALSO WILL"

BE DISCUSSED BY THE TWO LEADERS: IDEALLY, VENEZUELA

DESIRES THAT THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT LEGALIZE THE STATUS

OF: THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT IN CUBA BUT

VENEZUELA IS NOT SANGUINE ABOUT THE PROSPECTS FOR

THIS, CALDERA THEREFORE IS PLANNING TO ASK CASTRO

THAT HIS GOVERNMENT REMOVE THE RESTRICTIONS IT HAS

PLACED ON THE MOVEMENT AND ON THE ACTIVITIES OF CERTAIN

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PROMINENT CUBAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS, SOME OF WHOM

CURRENTLY ARE IMPRISONED IN CUBA, THE LIFTING OF SUCH

RESTRICTIONS WOULD INCLUDE PERMITTING THE DEPARTURE

OF THESE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS FROM CUBA IF ANY OF THEM

SO DESIRED, ANY AGREEMENT REACHED CONCERNING THESE

CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS WILL NOT BE PUBLICLY REVEALED AS

THIS IS BEING NEGOTIATED AS A CONEIDENTIAL FAVOR.

REQUESTED BY THE VENEZUELANS FROM THE CUBANS:

FIELD COMMENT: CEVC- 6682/0

FIRDB-312/02058-73

PROM THE SOURCE OF THIS REPORT, COVERS COPE! NEGOTIATIONS

WITH CUBA CONCERNING THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS.!

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