REPORTED USE OF SOVIET SHIPS TO TRANSPORT CARGOES FROM MEXICO TO CUBA (S-1042)

Created: 6/29/1963

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ft; HISTORICAL fjEVIEVV PROGRAM-"EuviSE AS SANITIZED %

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or Soviet fihipc to Tronoport Cargoes froa

Ifexico to Cuba

is no inforoation available to substantiate reportsohlpo ore being ueed to transport cargoes froo Sfexlcan porta

ertrceoly unllfcciy tear bonce neaps covin cmA at Jtsciaan ports vitbout being detected..

one Soviet tercbant ohlp hoc colledrlfren port Tne rVAHoviet dry-cargo ship,goners! cargo Including canned feed, flour, trucks, treotorsto Cuba ln After dlpcborgtog this cargothe IWH POUBJWY nroencded, unler rrench charter, toport of Coattacoalcon where abe pickedargot ta fiavrs.

3- The ooly other Soviet veaaebi trovn to have called at tericiin porta since tbe Gabon crisis have beer, the Goviet flohlng trawlers baj-.cd In Cuba. These trawlersj- fairly frequent calls atir. to pieV up food aa& province. *

tlx-re in no evidence to indicate thst tney pickednay cargoa norcal food end prevlsionr..

The only Bloo-flag ohlpo In the Cuban trade which cellct texloan ports aro thc Paileii-rJcg ahipo that call at the ci.-xlc.an porta of Taapioo end Vera Cruz as part of tho regular Polish Uner ccrvice froa Gdynia and Stettin to ibxlco and Cuba. The col in at fexlcan ports are nocdrwil ly to load etid dlocharge cargoes ln the Pollsh-MsKlCnn trade. It ia possible toot thnsn oiitp-eftrKO-fC'ln Vi-rfr 'nr Cuba.

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