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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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PAGE JIM WAVS 1229 5 5 7 7 ATION GROUP MEMO DATED 11 APRIL 66 (POUCHED TO JMVAVT WITHOUT MANIFEST). ATTACHMENT, DATED 3 APRIL 66, CONCERNS COORDINATION OF ACSI OP INTO CUBA INVOLVING USE OF ANTONIO CUESTA, CRAFT OWNED BY MIM, AND NINE OTHER EXILES ASSOCIATED WITH COMMANDOS L AND ALPHA 66. 2. ON 16 MAY, AFTER RECEIVING INFO INDICATING CUESTA AND COMMANDOS L PLANNING SOME FORM OF OP INTO CUBA OR HAITI, COS JMWAVE QUERIED CHIEF LOCAL ACSI DETRE STATUS OF CUESTA. ACSI CHIEF STATED CUESTA IN PROCESS OF BEING TERMINATED. 3. UPON RECEIPT REF. INFO COS JMWAVE CHECKED BY TELEPHONE WITH CHIEF LOCAL ACSI CONCERNING ALL PERSONS MENTIONED REF. LOCAL ACSI CHIEF STATED FOR LOWING: A. CUESTA TERMINATED BY ACST MORNING 29 MAY. B. ON 19 APRIL LOCAL ACSI "ESTABLISHED INTEREST" IN ALVAREZ, FERNANDEZ ANTA AND ZALDIZAR BUT THIS STILL PENDING, NAMELY, THEY HAVE NOT HEARD FROM ACSI HCS RE THEIR REQUEST. C. ROMER AND DIAZ NEVER OF OPS INTEREST
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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.