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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 4 OF 4 PAGES COMPLETION OF PLANS BY DIAZ TO GO TO CUBA ON AN ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF CASTRO. TDCSDB-315/00765-66, DATED 9 MARCH 1966 SAID THAT DIAZ WOULD LEAVE MIAMI AT ANY MOMENT ON THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. CSDB 312-01203-66 REPORTS THAT ON 17 MARCH 1966 DIAZ SAID HE WAS FORCED TO CANCEL HIS PLAN TO ASSASSINATE CASTRO BECAUSE OF THE ARREST IN CUBA OF EFIGENIO AMEIJEIRAS DELGADO WHO WAS DIAZ' FRIEND AND CONTACT IN CUBA FOR THE ASSASSINATION PLAN.) 7. FIELD DISSEM: CINCSO, CINCLANT, COMKWESTFOR, MIAMI REPS OF STATE, FBI, I&NS, CUSTOMS, BORDER PATROL, USCG, US ARMY FIELD APPRAISAL DETACHMENT 1. CONFIDENTIAL NO FOREIGN DISSEM / CONTROLLED DISSEM
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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.