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201-203040 Diaz-Garcia, Sandelio Herminio

Central Intelligence Agency · 1975-08-11 · 163 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 66 …Chief, Special Affairs Staff ONLY QUALIFIED HEADQUARTERS DESK CAN JUDGE INDEXING FROM Chief of Station, JMWAVE…
  • p. 68 …NO INDEXING REQUIRED FROM Chief of Station, JMWAVE ONLY QUALIFIED HEADQUARTERS DESK CAN JUDGE INDEXING ABSTRACT…
  • p. 73 …He was detained in the G-2 Headquarters at 5th Avenue and 14th Street, Miramar, Havana…
  • p. 79 …ONLY QUALIFIED HEADQUARTERS DESK CAN JUDGE INDEXING FROM ABSTRACT MICROFILM SUBJECT Operational/TYPIC LCFLUTTER Results on…
  • p. 87 …ONLY QUALIFIED HEADQUARTERS DESK CAN JUDGE INDEXING FROM Chief of Station, JMWAVE ABSTRACT MICROFILM SUBJECT Operational…
  • p. 119 …Attached for Headquarters only are photographs of DIAZ' and DELGADO's passports FORM NO. 51-28A…
  • p. 122 …Attached for Headquarters only are photographs of DIAZ and DELGADO's passports

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MICROFILMES

MAR 20 1962

DOC, MICRO, SER.

HRS-4-24 2

Chief of Station, Habana

27 November 1956

Chief of Station, San Jose

INFO: Washington

Operational

SOURCE:

Letter to Sandelio Herminio DIAZ García

EVALUATION: 9/9 - Documentary

1. A letter was sent from Nabana, Cuba, dated 25 October 1956, to Armando FERNANDEZ, Apartado 1625, San Jose, from an unidentified writer whose signature appears to be "Tony Bauer".

2. Armando FERMANDEZ is a pseudonym for Sandelio Herminio DIAZ García. Apartado 3625 has not previously been reported as an address of DIAZ, who standardly has utilised 3620. No. 3625 is listed in the 1956 Apartado Directory as registered under the name of Tomas Eduardo BECK (or BECH), on whom this Station has no information.

3. While the contents of the letter appear to consist of purely personal matters, it is forwarded to you for possible operational leads.

Attachment:

1 copy of letter for Habana only Distribution:

1 - Habana w/enc.

2 - Washington wo/encl.

PJK/PJY

20 November 1956

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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.