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201-203040 Diaz-Garcia, Sandelio Herminio

Central Intelligence Agency · 1975-08-11 · 163 pages · text by 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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  • p. 18 …ROMER AND DIAZ NEVER OF OPS INTEREST
  • p. 63 …Iden B has never specifically told Subject that it would be necessary to assassinate CASTRO. Subject…
  • p. 70 …It was also determined that not only had AMEIJEIRAS never discussed a plan for the assassination…
  • p. 73 …and July 1963, but that he was never confined. Each apprehension, or arrest, was followed by…
  • p. 81 …Iden B has never specifically told Subject that it would be necessary to assassinate CASTRO. Subject…
  • p. 111 …CLAIMS NEVER MEMBER G-2 OR THAT HE APPROACHED BY THEM PRIOR HIS DEPARTURE CUBA. SUBJ…
  • p. 115 …CLAIMS NEVER MEMBER G-2 OR THAT HE APPROACHED BY THEM PRIOR HIS DEPARTURE CUBA. SUBJ…
EUGENIO ENRIQUE ZALDIZAR, BORN 28 APRIL 1945. MIAMI RESIDENT. ASSOCIATED WITH MILITARY ACTIVITIES OF COMMANDOS L.

POSSIBLY GUILLERMO ALVAREZ GARCIA, BORN 12 JULY 1928, OR GUILLERMO ALVAREZ BOUCLE, BORN 11 SEPT 1933, CIENFUEGOS, CUBA.

ROBERTO CLAUDIO ANTA FERNANDEZ, BORN 21 JULY 1943, CAMAGUEY, CUBA. MIAMI RESIDENT. ASSOCIATED WITH COMMANDOS L. BELIEVED TO HAVE SERVED WITH THE U.S. ARMY IN LATE 1962. ALL OF THE PERSONS LISTED ABOVE ARE KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH MILITARY ACTIVITY AGAINST CUBA SPONSORED BY COMMANDOS L. AND THE RECE.

5. (FIELD COMMENT: FILE INFORMATION AVAILABLE INDICATES THAT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING CRAFT WAS USED BY THE INFILTRATION GROUP:

FL-8509-F, A 23 FOOT SEABIRD REGISTERED TO ALBERTO SANCHEZ, 185 NORTHWEST 18TH COURT, MIAMI. FL-8477-F, A 25 FOOT BOAT, DARK GREEN, TWO 150 HORSEPOWER MERCRUISER ENGINES, OWNER UNKNOW.

6. FIELD DISSEM: CINCLANT, CINCSO, COMKWESTFOR, MIAMI REPS STATE, FBI, COAST GUARD, CUSTOMS, IMMIGRATION

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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.