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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.

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  • p. 18 …ROMER AND DIAZ NEVER OF OPS INTEREST
  • p. 63 …Iden B has never specifically told Subject that it would be necessary to assassinate CASTRO. Subject…
  • p. 70 …It was also determined that not only had AMEIJEIRAS never discussed a plan for the assassination…
  • p. 73 …and July 1963, but that he was never confined. Each apprehension, or arrest, was followed by…
  • p. 81 …Iden B has never specifically told Subject that it would be necessary to assassinate CASTRO. Subject…
  • p. 111 …CLAIMS NEVER MEMBER G-2 OR THAT HE APPROACHED BY THEM PRIOR HIS DEPARTURE CUBA. SUBJ…
  • p. 115 …CLAIMS NEVER MEMBER G-2 OR THAT HE APPROACHED BY THEM PRIOR HIS DEPARTURE CUBA. SUBJ…
ACTION UNIT	INFO	AGENCY MESSAGE
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T 441306. PAGE 03-03 IN 995071 TOR:0610552 AUG 73 WMIM 19175
ACTIVE EXILE GROUPS U.S. AND CONNECTED WITH RECE. IN 1963, HE WAS ACCUSED BY ORLAND BOSCH AVILA OF MISAPPROPRIATION FUNDS GIVEN HIM TO CARRY OUT WARLIKE ACTIVITIES AGAINST CUBA. BOSCH CLAIMED DUGUE USED FUNDS ON WOMEN AND PARTIES AND DEMPED ARMS HE RECEIVED INTO SEA. NO OTHER INFO.
3. FILE: 200-11-11/3; 24-120-25. E2. IMPDET

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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.