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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.

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PAGE 3 JMWAVE 1209 F U S E I

TO LOCAL ACSI ALTHO THEY KNOWN TO ACSI AS SOMETIME MEMBERS OF BOAT CREW HEADED BY ENRIQUE GONZALEZ (PERSON INVOLVED IN NORTORIOUS BAHAMAS INCIDENT OF APRIL 66)

4. WHILE IMPOSSIBLE PREDICT CUBAN REACTION BELIEVE THEY MAY CHARGE THAT 29-30 NAY INCIDENT WAS OPERATION BY U.S. ARMY AND PRESENT INFO FROM CAPTURED PERSONNEL AS SUBSTANTIATING THEIR CLAIM. IT CLEAR THAT ACSI HAS BEEN IN CONTACT WITH CUESTA AND THRU HIM WITH VARIOUS COMMANDOS L-ALPHA 66 PERSONALITIES SINCE AT LEAST 65. PROBABLY EARLIER. CUESTA ASSOCIATION WITH ACSI WIDELY KNOWN IN LOCAL EXILE AND ODYOKE CIRCLES. ALSO POSSIBLE THAT CUBANS WILL CHOOSE TO CHARGE THAT OP WAS DIRECTLY SPONSORED OR MASTERMINDED BY KUBARK. IT WOULD APPEAR UNLIKELY THAT CUBANS CAN PRODUCE ANY PLAUSIBLE EVIDENCE LINKING INCIDENT PARTICIPANTS WITH KUBARK.

SECRET Reported a clash at sea between a Cuban exile group and the Cuban Armed Forces.

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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.