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201-203040 Diaz-Garcia, Sandelio Herminio

Central Intelligence Agency · 1975-08-11 · 163 pages · text by GLM-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. 72 …Subject said he personally met and had frequently talked with Colonel ANDERSON, who was interested in…

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Approved for Release: 2025/06/11 C07177588

CITE DIR 62462

ON MILITARY FIGURES OR POSITIONS IN CUBA, RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF THE POSITIONS, MORALE OF MILITARY, ET./WOULD ALSO LIKE TO KNOW OF ANY COMMENTS ON RUMORED RECENT ARRESTS OF MANY STAFF OFFICERS CUBA, BOTH ARMY AND NAVY.

F. IF AMWHIP KNOWS FERNANDEZ MEL AND LATTER PART AMEIJEIRAS GROUP, HQS QUULD LIKE ANY COMMENTS DROPPED RE THIS GROUP AND ITS ACTIVITIES.

G. NARANJO CONSIDERED BY AMLASH/AMWHIP AS A GOOD FRIEND. PLS ASK AMWHIP GET NARANJO TO COMMENT ON CUBAN EXILE GROUPS SUCH AS MANOLO RAY, MANUEL ARTIME, ERNEIDO OLIVA, ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO, JUAN MANUEL SALVAT (OF STUDENT DIRECTORATE) AND ON FEELINGS OF GOC CIRCLES ON SUCH GROUPS.

H. ASK AMWHIP WHETHER NARANJO SEES AMLASH/1? ANY COMMENTS ON THIS? WHAT IS AMLASH DOING, THINKING, PLANNING?

I. NARANJO SAYS THE REGIME FALLING APART BUT THAT LE IS STICKING WITH THE REGIME. WHY? ESPECIALLY SINCE THE SITUATION IS DETERIORATING. IS THIS LOYALTY TO RAUL CASTRO? WOULD NARANJO ACT AGAINST AMLASH/1 IF HE LEARNED OF ANY OF THE LATTER'S ACTIVITIE

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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.