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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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CLASSIFIED MESSAGE ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING / COSTA RICA PRES JOSE (FIGUERES). RELEASED COSTA RICAN PRISON JAN 59 THROUGH ARRANGEMENTS MADE BY AMEIJERAS, THEN PNR CHIEF AND PERSONAL FRIEND / SUBJ. E. AMOT-20 EVAL SUBJ: FOND OF GAMBLING AND CAPABLE COMMITTING ANY CRIME FOR MONEY. 3. FOLL OBTAINED AMOT-133 FROM RAUL (ROS) GONZALEZ (DPOB 24 APR 22, GUANTANAMO, ALLEGED CASTRO AGENT MIAMI. SEE 210-279603 AND SAS/CE CARDS AVAILABLE HQS), WHO SPOKE TO SUBJ REF 24 JUL 63: A. SUBJ SAID HE ARRESTED 17 APR 61 AT TIME BAY PIGS INVA- SION AND DETAINED LA CABANA 70 DAYS. AMEIJEIRAS ARRANGED RELEASE FROM PRISON. B. ARRESTED AGAIN ABOUT MAR 62 ON SUSPICION CONSPIRING AGAINST REGIME. DETAINED 20 DAYS IN G-2 OFFICES, MIRAMAR. SUBJ SAID HE DID NOT OCCUPY ANY OTHER OFFICIAL POSITION AFTER RELEASE. FROM "PEPE" DE JESUS (HINJAUME) (MAT UNK) REGARDING PLAN ASSASSINATE FIDEL CASTRO. (NO WAVE TRACES HINJAUME.) 4. AMOT-133 OBTAINED FOLL RE AMEIJEIRAS IN INTERVIEW 30 JUL WITH SUBJ REF: A. AMEIJEIRAS CURRENTLY LEADER PRO-US ANTI-COMMIE GROUP REV ARMY COMPOSED NUMEROUS UNIDENTIFIED JUNIOR OFFICERS AND FOLL MAJORS WHO WAITING OPPORTUNITY ACT IN FAVOR ANY MOVEMENT WHICH DOES NOT INVOLVE BATISTIANO ELEMENTS: JUAN (ALMEIDA) BOSQUE, SAMUEL (RODILES) PLANAS, RENE (RODRIGUEZ) DE LOS SANTOS, ROLANDO (CUBELAS) SECADES, RAUL (DIAZ-ARGUELLES) GARCIA, OSCAR (FERNANDEZ) MEL, JOSE (PONCE) DIEZ (LATTER BROTHER-IN-LAW RAMIRO (VALDES) MENENDEZ, MIN INTERIOR).
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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.