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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 LOCATIONS WHICH MIGHT BE TARGETS IN FUTURE RAIDS. (SOURCE COMMENT: IT IS BELIEVED THAT DIAZ IS RECEIVING ASSISTANCE FROM JOSE MARIA "PEPIN" BOSCH LAMARQUE, OF THE BACARDI FIRM, WITH "POLO" MIRANDA ACTING AS INTERMEDIARY. (FIELD COMMENT: ANY ASSISTANCE FROM BOSCH PROBABLY IS CHANNELED THROUGH THE REPRESENTACION CUBANA EN EL EXILIO (RECE, CUBAN REPRESENTATION IN EXILE) TO WHICH BOSCH CONTRIBUTES MONEY. THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL REPORTS INDICATING FINANCIAL SUPPORT BY RECE OF VARIOUS MILITANT EMIGRE GROUPS AND ACTIONS INCLUDING THE 14 NOVEMBER 1965 ATTACK ON HAVANA BY CUBAN EMIGRES.) 3. (FIELD COMMENT: A RECENT REPORT FROM AN INDEPENDENT SOURCE GAVE INFORMATION ON PLANS OF THE MOVIMIENTO INSURRECCIONAL DE RECUPERACION REVOLUCIONARIA (MIRR, INSURRECTIONAL MOVEMENT FOR REVOLUTIONARY RECOVERY) TO ATTACK THE NORTH COAST OF MATANZAS PROVINCE ON 6 JANUARY. DIAZ WAS TO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THE ATTACK, AND PICTURES WERE TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN FOR PROPAGANDA PURPOSES. THE ATTACK WAS CALLED OFF WHEN SERGIO SANCHEZ SUAREZ, WHO ALSO WAS TO HAVE PARTICIPATED, REFUSED TO BECOME INVOLVED WITH DIAZ. SOURCE COMMENTED THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT THE ATTACK WOULD BE CARRIED OUT WITHOUT SANCHEZ' PARTICIPATION.) 4. ON 17 DECEMBER 1965 JOSE PRINCE AND "TITO" DELAES 4. ON 17 DECEMBER 1965 JOSE PRINCE AND "TITO" PELAEZ SAID THAT THEY HAD POSTPONED THEIR PLANS TO ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE CASTRO, BUT THAT THEY WERE CONTINUING TO ORGANIZE A POLITICAL GROUP WHICH WOULD TAKE OVER THE GOVERMENT IN CUBA AFTER CASTRO HAD BEEN ## SECRET
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