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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.
“Headquarters”7 pages
PAGE 3 OF 5 PAGES 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 under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 163 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.