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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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CITE DIR 62462 3. IN CONNECTION WITH THE ABOVE, PLS CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING: A. OSCAR (FERNANDEZ) MEL CHIEF OF STAFF WESTERN ARMY. HEADED MILITARY DELEGATION TO ALGERIA FOR 1 NOV INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATIONS. HOW DID UNSNAFU/19 KNOW THIS SINCE TO OUR KNOWLEDGE DELEGATION TRAVELED VIA MADR? B. WHAT PROMPTED UNSNAFU/19 TELL AMWHIP ABOUT THE DIVISION? WHAT WAS WORD ACTUALLY USED IN REFERRING TO CUBAN TROOPS AND WERE NUMBERS MENTIONED? DID SNAFU/19 SAY ANYTHING FURTHER ABOUT CUBAN MILITARY EFFORTS ALGERIA? ## C. IS FERNANDEZ MEL EXPECTED PARIS? D. DOES AMWHIP KNOW HIM? FERNANDEZ REPORTED PRO-REGIME, CLOSE TO ERNESTO "CHE" GUEVARA, DIFFICULT TARGET. HOWEVER, ONE SOURCE, SANDELIO HERMINIO (DIAZ) GARCIA, PERHAPS KNOWN TO AMWHIP, REPORTED IN JULY 1963 IN MIAMI THAT FERNANDEZ MEL IS A GOOD FRIEND OF CMDTE. EFIGENIO (AMEIJEIRAS) DELGADO AND PART OF LATTER'S AMLASH-CONNECTED GROUP. CAN AMWHIP COMMENT ON THIS? E. IF AMWHIP AND FERNANDEZ MEL KNOW EACH OTHER AND MEET, OR IF UNSNAFU/19 OR NARANJO COMMENT ON CUBAN MILITARY ALGERIA, HQS WOULD LIKE TO KNOW NAMES OF ANY HIGH-RANKING CUBAN OFFICERS ASSIGNED
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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.