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201-203040 Diaz-Garcia, Sandelio Herminio

Central Intelligence Agency · 1975-08-11 · 163 pages · text by 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. 7 …BOSCH CLAIMED DUGUE USED FUNDS ON WOMEN AND PARTIES AND DEMPED ARMS HE RECEIVED INTO SEA…
  • p. 14 …TWO WOUNDED SURVIVORS WERE RESCUED FROM THE SEA BY CUBAN FORCES AND THE TWO OTHER MEN…
  • p. 19 …SECRET Reported a clash at sea between a Cuban exile group and the Cuban Armed Forces…
  • p. 22 …TWO INJURED SURVIVORS WERE RESCUED FROM THE SEA AND TWO WERE BELIEVED TO HAVE PERISHED IN…
  • p. 31 …HE SAID THAT HIS PLANS WERE DELAYED BECAUSE OF THE ROUGH SEAS AND THE VIGILANCE OF…
  • p. 149 …Araujin de exefligue de tu situação y sea que se puede hacer para acclaren publicamente de…
  • p. 157 …Hay pero en que este mequilote sea imperable. No lo pe nada and que cuartarle, veo…
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B. AGE 35-40, 190 POUNDS, 6 FOOT, BLOND WITH THIN HAIR IN FRONT AND VERY FAIR. HE SEEMED BE BOSS. VERY POLITE. CARRIED MONEY FOR GROUP AND DISBURSED IT IN $100 BILLS. DRIVES 65 OLDS 98, LIGHT BLUE, FOUR DOOR SEDAN, LICENSE FLORIDA 1W86111.

C. SHORT, DARK, CURLY HAIR, WEARS GLASSES. A-15 ONLY SAW HIM SITTING DOWN. HE TOOK LITTLE PART IN ACTIVITY.

7. AMERICANS IMPRESSED A-15 AS BEING NAIVE DEALING WITH EXPLOSIVES AND MUNITIONS AND DID NOT KNOW FAIR PRICE ITEMS. HE BELIEVES THEY WILL NOT BE AROUND MUCH MORE THAN WEEK SINCE VOLUME THEY SEEK IS NOT (IN A-15 OPINION) AVAILABLE THIS AREA AT PRESENT TIME.

8. WAVE ADVISED A-15 NOT HANDLE OR HAVE IN POSSESSION ANY ABOVE MUNITIONS AND REMOVE SELF FROM ACTIVITIES.

9. NO DISSEM ABOVE BECAUSE A-15 INTIMATE LINK ACTIVITIES. HOWEVER INFO PASSED ODENVY AND ODBOON IN OPS MEMO.

10。 TRACES FOLLOW。 PLS INDEX。

SECRET

CFN: 4282 22 65 AMCLEVE-15 DIEGO BORGES AMERICANS NOT KNOWN A-15 JOHN BIRCH KU KLUX KLAN A-15 A-15 NO SURE NOT TRAP ODYOKE

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 163 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.