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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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ATION WERE THE FOLLOWING:

ARMANDO ROMERO

ERMINIO DIAZ Garcia

ANTIONIO CUESTA DEL VALLE

EUGENIO SALDIVAR

GUILLERMO ALVAREZ

ROBERTO ANTA

ROMERO AND DIAZ WERE KILLED DURING THE BATTLE WITH CUBAN FORCES.

Press said Diary and Curate.

3. THE BOAT USED IN THE OPERATION WAS OWNED BY ANTONIO CUESTA DEL VALLE; IT WAS 24 FEET IN LENGTH.

4. (FIELD COMMENT: FILE INFORMATION AVAILABLE INDICATES THAT THE PERSONS CITED IN PARAGRAPH 2 ABOVE ARE THE FOLLOWING:

ARMANDO ROMER, BORN 22 AUGUST 1938, MIAMI

RESIDENT. ASSOCIATED WITH 30TH OF NOVEMBER MOVEMENT.

SANDALIO HERMINIO DIAZ, BORN 3 SEPTEMBER 1923, MIAMI RESIDENT.

ANTONIO CUESTA DEL VALLE, BORN 13 JUNE 1926, SANTIAGO, CUBA. MIAMI RESIDENT SINCE 1959. CHIEF OF MILITARY OPERATIONS FOR COMMANDOS L ALPHA 66 GROUP.

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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.