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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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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ROUTINE # Intelligence Information Cable IN-26131 PAGE 1 OF 5 PAGES STATE/INR DIA ARMY NAVY AIR JCS SECDEF NSA NIC SDO ONE OCR CIA/NMC EXO, DDI, FBI, I&NS, COAST GUARD, CUSTOMS, BORDER PATROL This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmisson or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law. NO FOREIGN DISSEM/CONTROLLED DISSEM GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification THIS IS AN INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE C O N F I D E N T I A L 10056Z CITE TDCS-314/01522-66 DIST 1.JUNE 1966 COUNTRY: CUBA DO1 : 30 MAY 1966 SUBJECT: IDENTITIES OF PERSONS INVOLVED IN ENCOUNTER WITH CUBAN ARMED FORCES ON 29 MAY 1966. ACQ UNITED STATES, MIAMI (30 MAY 1966) SOURCE: A MEMBER OF THE RECE (REPRESENTATION CUBANA EN EL EXILIO) WHO ENJOYS A WIDE CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCES AMONG CUBAN EXILE ACTIVISTS IN MIAMI. SOURCE HAS SUBMITTED RELIABLE INFORMATION ON ACTIVIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PAST. 1. (FIELD COMMENT: ON 30 MAY 1966 AT 1105 HOURS GMT THE DOMESTIC SERVICE OF HAVANA RADIO BRAODCAST THE FOLLOWING COMMUNIQUE FROM THE GENERAL STAFF OF THE CUBAN ARMED FORCES: AT 2315 HOURS ANTI-AIRCRAFT PERSONNEL ON THE CUBAN COAST WEST OF HAVANA DISCOVERED A PIRATE BOAT WHILE IT WAS ATTEMPTING TO LAND 2 INFILTRATORS. IN AN ENCOUNTER BETWEEN THE INTRODUCING ENEMIES AND ANTI- C-O-N-E-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L NO FOREIGN DISSEM/CONTROLLED DISSEM (classification) (dissem controls)
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