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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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ORIG: GRACE ROBERTS/rmc UNIT : WH/SA/EOB/MHAPRONDEX EXT : 1496 DATE: 6 NOV 1964 FILE IN CS FILE NO. 201-250391 TO PARIS FROM: DIRECTOR CONF : DOWNSA 3 INFO : DUF , UR , RYAN DUNNY , FILE INFO MADR ALGI WAVE CITE DIR 62462 TYPIC MHAPRON AMWHP/1 AMLASH/1 YOBITE UNSNAFU/19 REF: PARI 7404 (IN 18538) 1. REF PARA 3, IN OCT 1963 SOME 300 TO 500 CUBAN MILITARY PERSONNEL PLUS LIMITED AMOUNT MILITARY EQUIPMENT TRAVELED TO ALGERIA ON TWO OR THREE CUBAN CARGO VESSELS. PURPOSE WAS TO ASSIST ALGERIA IN WAR WITH MOROCCO. IN JAN 1964 SOME RETURNED CUBA AND ESTIMATE LAST OF GROUP RETURNED APRIL 1964 ABOARD SOVIET PASSENGER AND CUBAN VESSELS. 2: IN LATE SEPT 1964 RUMOR BEGAN MAKING DIPLOMATIC CIRCUIT HAVANA THAT CONTINGENT CUBAN TROOPS HAD RECENTLY DEPARTED FOR ALGERIA WITH POSSIBLE ULTIMATE DESTINATION CONGO OR VIET NAM. HQS CHECKED THESE ALLEGATIONS AND FOUND THAT ONLY ONE CUBAN VESSEL COULD HAVE TAKEN THIS CONTINGENT WITHIN TIME FRAME OF REPORTS AND IT APPEARS THIS VESSEL DID NOT TAKE ANY PASSENGERS. CANNOT YET TOTALLY RULE OUT POSSIBILITY SOME CUBANS MAY HAVE TRAVELED BY SOME CIRCUITIOUS AIR ROUTING. SINCE INTRODUCTION EVEN SMALL CONTINGENT TRAINED TROOPS INTO CONGO WOULD BE CRITICAL, HQS HAS PRIORITY REQUIREMENT CONFIRM OR DENY ANY CUBAN TROOPS NOW ALGERIA FOR ANY REASON. RELEASING OFFICER
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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.