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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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ACTING AS COURIER BETWEEN NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS IN MEXICO AND U.S., USING PUERTO RICAN DOCUMENTATION. WOULD VISIT HIS MEXICAN WIFE WHO RESIDED MAVANA. THEY HAVE SON WHO BORN U.S. IT ALSO RUMORED THAT DIAZ HAD MEETINGS WITH LOCAL MEXICAN POLICE SHIEF WHO PERSONAL FRIEND. DIAZ TRAVELLED FREQUENTLY BETWEEN MIAMI AND NEW YORK AND ALWAYS SEEMED TO HAVE LARGE AMOUNTS MONEY. ANOTHER 1965 REPORT INDICATED DIAZ WAS MILITARY COORDINATOR 30TH NOVEMBER MOVEMENT AND WAS ONE OF GROUP WHICH ATTEMPTED INFILTRATE CUBA 1966. 2. SLIGO TRACES CONTAIN NO INFORMATION CONNECTING DUQUE WITH DRUG TRAFFICKING. THEY OF OPINION DIAZ IDENTICAL WITH SANDALIO HERMINO DIAZ GARCIA WHO WAS REPORTED BY CUBAN RADIO AS HAVING BEEN KILLED DURING 1966 ATTEMPT TO INVADE ISLAND. HE WAS ALSO REPORTED 1966 AS POSSIBLE GOC AGENT INFILTRATED U.S. ONLY ADDITIONAL SLIGO INFO ON DUQUE AS FOLLOWS: DP00: 13 JAN 1927, LAS VILLAS. DURING STRUGGLE WITH DATISTA REGIME, SUBJECT WAS MEMBER "13TH OF MARCH REVOLUTIONARY DIRECTORATE;" AND JOINED GUERRILLAS ESCAMBRAY 1958. IN JAN 1959, JOINED REBEL ARMY WITH RANK OF SARGEANT. WAS SECRET
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