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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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# CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Intelligence Information Cable 1. (FIELD COMMENT. THERE HAVE BEEN A SERIES OF ALLEGED PLOTS TO ASSASSINATE FIDEL CASTRO RUZ, PLANNED BY VARIOUS EMIGRES AND EMIGRE GROUPS IN MIAMI. A REPORT DATED 6 JANUARY 1966 FROM THE SAME SOURCE GAVE INFORMATION ON DIAZ' PLAN TO ASSASSINATE CASTRO.) 2. ON 4 MARCH 1966 HERMINIO DIAZ GARCIA SAID THAT HE AND THE UNNAMED MEMBERS OF HIS GROUP WOULD LEAVE MIAMI FOR CUBA "AT ANY MOMENT" TO ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE FIDEL CASTRO RUZ. DIAZ CARRIED A 38-CALIBER PISTOL WITH A SILENCER WHICH HE SAID WOULD BE USED ON THE MISSION. DIAZ CLAIMED THAT THE SILENCER HAD COST $400 (U.S.). This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law. GROUP 1 Excluded from automa CONFIDENTIAL GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification STATE/INR DIA ARMY/ACSI NAVY AIR JCS SECDEF NSA NIC AID USIA OCI ONE OCR ORR OO
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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.