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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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FROM: JMWAVE ACTION: WH/C 8 X/RID COPY (ADVANCE COPY TUBED TO CS/DO AT 2145 BY B) INFO: VR, FILE, ADDP, CA 2, CA/PEG, CA/PROP D/OCI 2, D/ONE SECRET 090001Z DIR INFO PACY LANT BARR CITE WAVE 9537 INTEL TYPIC SUPDATA: NO PROJECT. SOURCE: AMBLINK-1 FROM AMRAZZ-1 WHO RECEIVED THE INFORMATION FROM MAX LESNICK MENENDEZ. INFO IN PARA 2 DATED 7 MARCH, PARA 3 DATED 19 FEBRUARY. FIELD COMMENT IN PARA 1 BASED ON UFG-7853. HQS ADD DISSEM DATA. FILED 090001Z REPORT CLASS CONFIDENTIAL CONTROLLED DISSEM NO FOREIGN DISSEM CUBA SUBJ: 0 PLANS OF HERMINIO DIAZ GARCIA TO ASSASSINATE FIDEL CASTRO RUZ DOI: 15 FEBRUARY TO 4 MARCH 1966 DIAZ Lorenzo REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED.
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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.