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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.
SECRET162301Z DIR CITE WAVE 4428 17 SEP 63 IN 20940 TYPIC DIV - attracted . 1. REQUEST TRACES SANDALIO HERMINIO (DIAZ) GARCIA (A 13 319 255), DPOB 3 SEP 23, AGUACATE, HAVA PROVINCE. PROFESSION DIETICIAN. LAST POSITION CASHIER HOTEL HAVANA- RIVIERA. MEMBER SINDICATO GASTRONOMICO. LAST RESIDENCE HAVA 51 CALLE 8, CASINO DEPORTIVO. FATHER HERMINIO (DIAZ) FERNANDEZ, DOB CIRCA 98, MEDICAL DOCTOR, AND MOTHER ANGELICA (GARCIA) LA ROSA, DOB CIRCA 01, RESIDE CUBA. WIFIALICIA (MCKENZIE) SANCHEZ, DOB CIRCA 30, AND INFANT DAUGHTER ARRIVED PORT EVERGLADES WITH SUBJ ON SS MAXIMUS 3 JUL 63. DETAINED GOC AT TIME OF BAY PIGS INVASION. SUBJ AND FAMILY RESIDING 127 NW 13TH AVE., MIAMI (SOURCE ABOVE CAC RECORDS). 2. FOLL OBTAINED FROM ODENVY WHO INTERVIEWED SUBJ OPA LOCKA: ATTENDED HAVA UNIV, 47-48. EXILED COSTA RICA 56 FOR ANTI-BATISTA ACTIVITY, WENT MEXI 57. CHIEF SECURITY DETAIL HAVANA RIVIERA HOTEL 59-60, THEN CASHIER SAME HOTEL UNTIL JUL 63. SUBJ DETAINED 80 DAYS AT TIME BAY PIGS INVISION. CLAIMS NEVER MEMBER G-2 OR THAT HE APPROACHED BY THEM PRIOR HIS DEPARTURE CUBA. SUBJ FATHER-IN-LAW, GERALD (MCKENZIE), GEROLOGIST, CANADIAN CITIZEN NOW RESIDING 1250 AND HALF NW 2ND AVE., MIAMI. REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downloading and declassification Copy No.
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