Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency personality (201) dossier on Sandelio Herminio Diaz Garcia holds material dated from November 1956 to August 1975 and was approved for release in 2025. It contains 1966 intelligence cables on a 29 May 1966 exile infiltration attempt near Havana, in which Diaz was reported killed while trying to assassinate Fidel Castro. It also includes a report on cancelled assassination plans, 1973 traces linking a Herminio Diaz to narcotics trafficking, and FBI file listings. The dossier contains no UFO material.
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ADVANCE COPY ISSUED/SLOTTED BY AT AGENCY MESSAGE ACTION UNIT IN NO. 11250173 FORWARDED IP/AN AUG 10 3 59'M 73 1 4 2 5 3 6 OCC: OWNS SUPER MARKET IN SAN JOSE. REMARKS: NATURALIZED CUBAN CITIZEN. SERVED AS COCAINE CHEMIST FOR ANTONIO PRIE T O MOREJON WHO PRESENTLY IMPRISONED ATLANTA FEDERAL PENITENTIARY. 2. FOR WH/MIAMI: REQUEST STATION AND SLIGO TRACES DUQUE/DIAZ. PRESENT CITIZENSHIP NOT KNOW. 3. FOR SAN JOSE: REQUEST STATION TRACES DUQUE/DIAZ. REQUEST LIAISON NOT BE QUERIED. NO OBJECTION UNILATERAL CHECK. 4. INDEX DUQUE/DIAZ, ORDONEZ. FILE: 200-11-11/3, 24-120-25. E2 IMPDET.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 163 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.