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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 # CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Intelligence Information Cable ROUTINE 中 COUNTRY CUBA TDCS DB-315/00765-66 DATE OF 15 FEBRUARY - 4 MARCH 1966 DISTR. 9 MARCH 1966 SUBJECT PLANS OF HERMINIO DIAZ GARCIA TO ASSASSINATE FIDEL CASTRO RUZ PLACE & DATE ACQ. UNITED STATES, MIAMI (22 FEBRUARY 1966) REF IN 70616 TDCSDB-315/00059-66 FIELD REPORT NO. UFG-8011 APPRAISAL: A CUBAN EMIGRE WITH EXCELLENT CONTACTS IN THE MOVIMIENTO REVOLUCIIONARIO DEL PUEBLO (MRP, REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT OF THE PEOPLE). HE HAS BEEN AN ACCURATE REPORTER ON THIS ORGANIZATION AND ON GENERAL EMIGRE POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS SINCE ABOUT MID-1962. 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 UNNAMED MEMBERS OF HIS GROUP WOULD LEAVE MIAMI FOR CUBA MOMENTARILY 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 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. ## CONFIDENTIAL NO FOREIGN DISSEM/CONTROLLED DISSEM GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification STATE/INR DIA ARMY/ACSI NAVY AIR JCS SECDEF NSA NIC XIX USIA OCI ONE OCR ORR XX DCS CIA/NMCC FBI I&NS COAST GUARD BORDER PATROL CUSTOMS EXO
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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.