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201-203040 Diaz-Garcia, Sandelio Herminio

Central Intelligence Agency · 1975-08-11 · 163 pages · text by GLM-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. 28 …WH/C 8 X/RID COPY (ADVANCE COPY TUBED TO CS/DO AT 2145 BY B…
  • p. 51 …THE COUPLE WILL BE ADVANCED $1000 TO BE USED FOR EMERGENCIES. MONEY, IF NOT USED, TO…

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DOI: 17 DECEMBER 1965 AND 4 JANUARY 1966

PADA: UNITED STATES, MIAMI (22 DECEMBER 1965 AND 6 JANUARY 1966) UFG-7853 SOURCE

SOURCE: A CUBAN EMIGRE WITH EXCELLENT CONTACTS IN THE MOVIMIENTO REVOLUCIÓNARIO 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.

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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.