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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.

  • p. 7 …BOSCH CLAIMED DUGUE USED FUNDS ON WOMEN AND PARTIES AND DEMPED ARMS HE RECEIVED INTO SEA…
  • p. 14 …TWO WOUNDED SURVIVORS WERE RESCUED FROM THE SEA BY CUBAN FORCES AND THE TWO OTHER MEN…
  • p. 19 …SECRET Reported a clash at sea between a Cuban exile group and the Cuban Armed Forces…
  • p. 22 …TWO INJURED SURVIVORS WERE RESCUED FROM THE SEA AND TWO WERE BELIEVED TO HAVE PERISHED IN…
  • p. 31 …HE SAID THAT HIS PLANS WERE DELAYED BECAUSE OF THE ROUGH SEAS AND THE VIGILANCE OF…
  • p. 149 …Araujin de exefligue de tu situação y sea que se puede hacer para acclaren publicamente de…
  • p. 157 …Hay pero en que este mequilote sea imperable. No lo pe nada and que cuartarle, veo…
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CSDB-312/01203-66

2. Source Comment. A prominent Cuban emigre in Miami who is a friend of Diaz, and with whom Diaz discussed his plan, said that although Diaz and Ameijeiras were friends, he was not aware of Ameijeiras' involvement in Diaz' assassi nation plan.

Field Comment. The arrest of Ameijeiras, vice-minister of the Cuban Armed Forces, was reported in the press on 17 March. TDCSDB-315/00765-66, from the same source, reported that on 4 March Diaz said that he and members of his group planned to leave Miami for Cuba momentarily. At that time Diaz' associates in Miami doubted that he would attempt to carry out the assassination plan. There has been no previous indication that Ameijeiras, or anyone in Cuba, was involved in Diaz' plan.

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