FROM AMEMBASSY BRASILIA 4829 TO SECSTATE WASHDC 5675

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R002400140047-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2003
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: November 28, 1972
• Content Type: TELEGRAM

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SUBJECT: RELATIONS WITH CUBS;
1. DURING OUR MEETING TODAY, FONMIN MARIO GIBSON RE-
FERRED TO PRESS SPECULATION RE POSSIBLE NEGOTIATIONS
BETWEEN U.S. AND CUBA ON AIRCRAFT HIJACKING, WITH REPORTS
SWISS EMBASSY IN HAVANA ALREADY IN TOUCH WITH CUBAN GOVT
ON OUR BEHALF THIS REGARD. HE CONSIDERED THIS WAS
ENCOURAGING DEVELOPMENT IN VIEW GREAT IMPORTANCE WHICH
CUBAN COOPERATION COULD HAVE IN DISCOURAGEMENT THIS
TYPE OF TERRORISM.
2. FONMIN WENT ON TO SAY THAT CONTACTS WITH CUBA THIS
SUBJECT HAD GIVEN RISE TO NEW AND 'INCREASED SPECULATION
THAT FUNDAMENTAL U.S. POLICIES TOWARD CUBA MIGHT SOON
CHANGE. HE RECALLED THAT OUR RESPECTIVE POLICIES TOWARD
CUBA HAD BEEN SUBJECT OF CONVERSATION BETWEEN PRESIDENTS
NIXON AND MEDICI DURING LATTER ?S VISIT TO WASHINGTON. FOREIGN
MINISTER?S UNDERSTANDING WAS THAT PRESIDENT NIXON HAD TOLD
PRESIDENT MEDICI THAT WE WOULD KEEP IN TOUCH WITH HIS GOVT
CONCERNING CUBA, AND IF THERE SHOULD BE ANY CHANGE IN OUR
ATTITUDE WE "WOULD NOT FORGET TO SPEAK WITH BRAZIL WELL IN ADVANCE
OF ANY SIGNIFICANT POLICY CHANGE." FONMIN RECALLED CONVERSATIONS
WHICH HE AND OTHER BRAZILIAN OFFICIALS HAVE HAD WITH U.S.
OFFICIALS THIS SUBJECT, BRAZILIANS HAD CONSISTENTLY EXPRESSED
CONCERN THAT BRAZIL SHOULD NOT BE CAUGHT BY SURPRISE IN SUDDEN
U.S. MOVE. HE CONVINCED THAT SEVERAL OTHER COUNTRIES IN
HEMISPHERE HAD TAKEN, OR WOULD SOON TAKE, STEPS TO RE-ESTABLISH
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RELATIONS WITH CUBA LARGELY BECAUSE THEY DID NOT WANT TO BE
"LEFT BEHIND" AND FELT THAT SOONER, RATHER THAN LATER, U.S._
POLICIES WOULD CHANGE. BRAZIL OF COURSE DID NOT WISH
PREMATURELY TO TAKE ANY SUCH PRECAUTIONARY STEP.
3. FONMIN ASKED ME AGAIN REMIN USG OF GOB'S DEEPEST
INTEREST IN THIS MATTER AND RELIANCE UPON ITS UNDERSTANDING
RE PRIOR U.S. NOTICE. I SAID THAT I WOULD DO S0, BUT STATED
I COULD REAFFIRM THE ASSURANCES THAT WE HAD PREVIOUSLY GIVEN
HIM THAT U.S. POLICY TOWARD CUBA REMAINS UNCHANGED, AND
NOTED WITH GRATIFICATION HIS AGREEMENT WITH U.S. VIEW THAT
SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS RE HIJACKING DICTATED SPECIAL EFFORTS
TO BRING ABOUT UNDERSTANDING THIS SUBJECT.
40 IN DISCUSSING MATTER, MARIO GIBSON SAID FONMIN OF GUYANA
HAD MENTIONED CONFIDENTIALLY DURING OPENING SESSION OF UNGA
IN NEW YORK THAT HE INTENDED TO RE-ESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
WITH CUBA, EXPLAINING THAT THIS WAS VERY LARGELY FOR DOMESTIC
POLITICAL PURPOSES. WHEN MARIO GIBSON HAD EXPRESSED CONCERN
-THAT THIS MIGHT GIVE CUBAN DIPLOMATIC MISSION IN GEORGETOWN
OPPORTUNITY TO INFILTRATE NEW AGENTS INTO CONTIGUOUS
AREAS OF BRAZIL, GUYANAN FONMIN RESPONDED HE DID NOT RPT
NOT INTEND THAT THERE WOULD BE ESTABLISHMENT OF DIPLOMATIC
MISSIONS, BUT RATHER THAT RESPECTIVE AMBASSADORS TO OTHER
COUNTRIES WOULD BE ACCREDITED. MARIO GIBSON SAID HE HAD
RECEIVED CONFIDENTIAL MESSAGE RECENTLY FROM GUYANA REAFFIRMING
BOTH REASON FOR RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF RELATIONS WITH CUBA AND
INTENTION NOT TO PERMIT DIPLOMATIC MISSION IN GEORGETOWN, "AT
LEAST NOT IN FORESEEABLE FUTURE."
5. I BELIEVE IT WOULD BE
VERY
USEFUL IN PRESERVING BRAZIL'S
FIRM ATTITUDE TOWARD CUBA
IF
I COULD, ON BASIS DEPT INSTRUCTIONS,
ASSURE MARIO GIBSON THAT
HIS
SPECIAL CONCERN RE PRIOR NOTICE
OF ANY SIGNIFICANT CHANGE
IN
U.S. POLICE IS BEING KEPT FULLY IN
MIND. XGDS-1ROUNTREE
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