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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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## CONFIDENTIAL IN 70616 TDCS PAGE 2 3. ON 15 FEBRUARY DIAZ SAID THAT HE HAD JUST RETURNED TO MIAMI FROM THE FLORIDA KEYS WHERE HE HAD GONE TO ARRANGE FOR HIS DEPARTURE FOR CUBA. HE SAID THAT HIS PLANS WERE DELAYED BECAUSE OF THE ROUGH SEAS AND THE VIGILANCE OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES. (SOURCE COMMMENT: DIAZ' ASSOCIATES IN MIAMI DO NOT BELIEVE THAT HE WILL ATTEMPT TO CARRY OUT HIS PLAN.) 4. FIELD DISSEM: CINCSO, CINCLANT, COMKWESTFOR, MIAMI REPS OF STATE, FBI, I&NS, CUSTOMS, BORDER PATROL, USCG. END OF MESSAGE CONFIDENTIAL MAR 30 A 02 PH 266
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 163 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.