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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.
“The Advance”2 pages
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SECRET # CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Intelligence Information Cable ROUTINE COUNTRY CUBA TDCS DB-315/00059-66 DATE OF 17 DECEMBER 1965 AND 4 JANUARY 1966 DISTR. 6 JANUARY 1966 SUBJECT 1. PLANNED IMINENT DEPARTURE OF CUBAN EMIGRES FROM MIAMI FOR CUBA TO ATTEMPT TO ASSISINATE FIDEL CASTRO 2. POSTPONMENT OF ANOTHER ASSASSINATION PLOT. DATE ACQ. UNITED STATES, MIAMI ( 22 DECEMBER 1965 AND 6 JANUARY 1966) REF IN 28301 SOURCE AND FIELD REPORT NO. UFG 7853 APPRAISAL: A CUBAN EMIGRE WITH EXCELLENT CONTACTS IN THE MOVIMIENTO REVOLUCIONARIO DEL PUEBLO (MPR, REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT OF THE PEOPLE). HE HAS BEEN AN ACCURATE REPORTER ON THIS ORGANIZATION AND ON EMIGRE POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS SINCE 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. ) 2. ON 4 JANUARY 1966 A HUBAN EMIGRE IN MIAMI SAID THAT HERMINIO DIAZ GARCIA, A MEMBER OF THE MOVEMIENTO REVOLUCIONARIO 30 DE NOVEMBRE (MRTN, 30 NOVEMBER REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT), AND TWO UNNAMED PEOPLE PLAN TO LEAVE THE UNITED STATES FOR CUBA ABOUT 9 OR 10 JANUARY TO ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE FIDEL CASTRO RUZ. DIAZ PLANS TO TAKE PICTURES, USING A 16 MM CAMERA AND INFRA-RED FILM, OF STRATEGIC 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. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM/CONTROLLED DISSEM STATE/INR DIA ARMY/ACSI NAVY AIR JCS SECDEF NSA NIC OCI ONE OCR GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification CIA/NMCC FBI I&NS TREASURY CUSTOMS COAST GUARD 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.