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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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IN 27734 TDCS DB-315/01542-66 PAGE 2 OF 4 PAGES BROADCAST TWO INFILTRATOR WERE KILLED, THE EMIGRE BOAT WITH FOUR MEN ABOARD WAS DESTROYED, TWO WOUNDED SURVIVORS WERE RESCUED FROM THE SEA BY CUBAN FORCES AND THE TWO OTHER MEN WERE BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED IN THE EXPLOSION OF THE BOAT. A RECENT REPORT FROM AN INDEPENDENT SOURCE GAVE THE NAMES OF THE MEN WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE OPERATION). 2. JORGE MAS CANOSA, A LEADER OF REPRESENTACION CUBANA EN EL EXILIO, (RECE, CUBAN REPRESENTATION IN EXILE), WAS THE COORDINATOR OF THE INFILTRATION OPERATION. THIS OPERATION WAS ALSO SUPPORTED BY THE MOVIEMENTO REVOLUCIONARIO 30 DE NOVIEMBRE, (MRTN, 30 NOVEMBER REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT) AND COMANDOS L. 3. TWO BOATS WERE INVOLVED IN THE OPERATION: THE F-8477-F, A 30-FOOT BOAT WHICH WENT INTO THE SHORE WIH THE SIX MEN ABOARD, WAS THE BOAT DESTROYED BY THE CUBAN FORCES. (FIELD COMMENT: THIS BOAT HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN DESCRIBED AS 25 FEET LONG, WITH TWO 150-HORSEPOWER MERCRUISER ENGINES, PAINTED) DARK GREEN. SEE TDCSDB-315/03943-65, DATED 3 DECEMBER 1965.) THE OTHER BOAT
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