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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 SECRET IN226 PAGE3 B. COMMIE GROUP CONSISTS OF RAUL (CASTRO) RUZ, ERNESTO "CHE" (GUEVARA) DE LA SERNA, RAMIRO (VALDES) MENENDEZ, FLAVIO (BRAVO) PARDO (FORMER PRES COMMIE YOUTH, NOW REV ARMY CHIEF OPNS), AUGUSTO (MARTINEZ) SANCHEZ, FELIX (TORRES) GARCIA, WILLIAM (GALVEZ) RODRIGUEZ. C. CMDTE GUILLERMO (GARCIA) FRIAS, CHIEF MANAGUA CAMP, NOT MBR EITHER ABOVE GROUP AND LOYAL FIDEL. D. FIDEL (CASTRO) ALLEGEDLY AWARE EXISTENCE ANTI- COMMIE GROUP HEADED BY A AND ACTS AS MODERATOR BETWEEN THEM IN ORDER MAIN- TAIN COHESION GOC. Es A. ALLEGEDLY RELIEVED DUTIES AS CHIEF STAFF CENTRAL ARMY DUE POLITICAL/IDEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES WITH CMDTE FELIX (TORRES) GARCIA. SUBJ REF SAID ALTHOUGH COMMIES WON ANOTHER FIGHT AGAINST A. HE WILL NOT ALLOW HIS ARM BE TWISTED AND CONTINUES SHOW CONTEMPT FOR COMMIES WHENEVER OPPORTUNITY PRESENTS ITSELF. 5. VIEW BACKGROUND SUBJ REF, IT OBVIOUS FIRST STEP WAVE WILL TAKE AFTER DEBRIEFING WILL BE ESTABLISHMENT HIS BONA FIDES AND VERACITY HIS CLAIMS. ALSO BASED ON RESULTS DEBRIEFING WAVE WILL DETERMINE SUBJ'S POSSIBLE UTILITY EITHER AS KUDESK AGENT CANDIDATE OR AS POTENTIAL MHAPRON ASSET. 6. INDEX. ## SECRET C/S COMMENT: * TARGET PBRUMEN COAST LINE FROM 500-FT NAVAL AUX. VESSEL DURING DAYLIGHT.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 163 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.