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.
“Headquarters”7 pages
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TO Chief, WH
FROM Chief of Station, Panama
INFO: Chiefs of Stations, Havana, San Jose, Guatemala, Caracas, and Bogota
SUBJECT { GENERAL Operational
SPECIFIC Herminio DIAZ Garcia
Juan Manuel DELGADO, aka El Frances
References: (a). PACY 3508 dated 12 November 1957 (b). PACY 3511 dated 14 November 1957
1. In reference (a) it was reported that Herminio *DIAZ Garcia (born in Havana, Cuba, on 3 September 1923) and Juan Manuel *DELGADO Chavez (born in Manacas, Cuba, on 24 November 1927), aka El Frances, had been serving sentences in Costa Rican prisons for having been involved in a plot to assassinate President FIGUERES and were about to be released. In reference (b) it was reported that they had passed through Panama on 12 November 1957 en route from San Jose to Barranquilla, Colombia.
2. DIAZ and DELGADO returned to Panama from Bogota on 18 November as passengers aboard AVIANCA flight no. 746 and DIAZ left for Guatemala the same day as a passenger aboard PAA flight no. 516. DELGADO was given a courtesy visa and permission to stay in Panama for one month by order of the Office of the President, in spite of the fact that the Director of Migration recommended that he not be allowed to enter, because it was felt that no concrete charges had been filed against him. (B-3) The following data (personal) were obtained:
Name Juan Manuel DELGADO Chavez
Place of birth Manacas, Cuba
Date of birth 24 November 1927
Sex Male
Marital Status Married
Nationality Cuban
Occupation Aviator (pilot)
Passport data Cuban passport no. 29166, issued at Havana on 8 September 1955
Sandalio Herminio DIAZ Garcia Havana, Cuba 2 September 1923 Male Married Cuban Bookkeeper Cuban passport no. 11838 issued at Havana on 6 May 1954
3. Attached for Headquarters only are photographs of DIAZ' and DELGADO's passports
FORM NO. 51-28A
MAR.1949 Not linked to a story yet.
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