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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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AIRCRAFT BATTERY PERSONNEL 2 INFILTRATORS WERE KILLED WHILE THE BOAT SPED FROM THE CUBAN COAST AT HIGH SPEED. WHEN THE COMMAND POSTS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY AIR FORCE AND NAVY WERE NOTIFIED RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT CARRYING ILLUMINATING BOMBS RAPIDLY TOOK OFF, LOCATED, AND ILLUMINATED THE ENEMY BOAT WHILE REVOLUTIONARY NAVAL UNITS PURSUED THE BOAT BY SEA AND REACHED IT APPROXIMATELY 12 MILES FROM THE COAST. A CONFLICT ENSUED AND THE BOAT WAS DESTROYED BY DIRECT HITS CAUSING IT TO BURN INTENSIVELY AND EXPLODED ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. TWO INJURED SURVIVORS WERE RESCUED FROM THE SEA AND TWO WERE BELIEVED TO HAVE PERISHED IN THE EXPLOSION. ACCORDING TO THE PRISONERS THE BOAT HAD 6 ARMED MEN ABOARD AND CAME FROM THE UNITED STATES. 2. THE INFILTRATION ATTEMPT AGAINST THE CUBAN COAST ON THE NIGHT OF 29-30 MAY 1966 WHICH CULMINATED IN AN ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN CUBAN ARMED FORCES AND THE INFILTRATORS WAS MOUNTED BY A GROUP OF PERSONNEL FROM THE COMMANDOS L ORGANIZATION. THE OPERATION WAS SPONSORED BY THE RECE (REPRESENTACION CUBANA EN EL EXILIO) ORGANIZATION. THE PERSONS INVOLVED IN THE OPER- CONFIDENTIA 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.