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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. 3 …201-0203040 DBB-0038065 08 FEB 1966 FBI SANDALIO HERMINIO DIAZ GARCIA, ALSO KNOW 201-0203040…
  • p. 4 …AND SHOULD BE REQUESTED FROM IP/FILES. DIAZ GARCIA, SANDELIO HERMINIO 201-0203040 201-0097455 SEX…
  • p. 6 …IT ALSO RUMORED THAT DIAZ HAD MEETINGS WITH LOCAL MEXICAN POLICE SHIEF WHO PERSONAL FRIEND. DIAZ…
  • p. 9 …HERMINIO OR ERMENGILDO DIAZ (20-02-03-30) (MEC WITH GUAYAQUIL DPOB: SPAIN; CIRCA 1923 D…
  • p. 10 …REQUEST STATION AND SLIGO TRACES DUQUE/DIAZ. PRESENT CITIZENSHIP NOT KNOW. 3. FOR SAN JOSE: REQUEST…
  • p. 12 …CUESTA, ALVAREZ, SALDIVAR, ANTA, ROMERO, DIAZ, MAS, BORGES. FILED 312015Z (IW COMMENT: MR. FLORES, WH/C…
  • p. 15 …ARMANDO ROMERO AND HERMINIO DIAZ GARCIA WERE THE MEN WHO WERE KILLED ON THE SHORE. ROBERTO…
  • p. 16 …TDCSDB-315/00765-66, DATED 9 MARCH 1966 SAID THAT DIAZ WOULD LEAVE MIAMI AT ANY…
  • p. 17 …GROUP OF CUBAN EXILES, LATER IDENTIFIED AS CUESTA, RORER, FERNANDEZ ANTA, DIAZ, ZALDIZAR, EXERCISING WITH SEABIRD…
  • p. 18 …ROMER AND DIAZ NEVER OF OPS INTEREST
  • p. 23 …ARMANDO ROMERO ERMINIO DIAZ Garcia ANTIONIO CUESTA DEL VALLE EUGENIO SALDIVAR GUILLERMO ALVAREZ ROBERTO ANTA ROMERO…
  • p. 26 …Three plots which have been reported are those planned by Herminio Diaz Garcia, Reinaldo Padron, and…
  • p. 27 …A prominent Cuban emigre in Miami who is a friend of Diaz, and with whom Diaz…
  • p. 28 …0 PLANS OF HERMINIO DIAZ GARCIA TO ASSASSINATE FIDEL CASTRO RUZ DOI: 15 FEBRUARY TO 4…
  • p. 30 …A REPORT DATED 6 JANUARY 1966 FROM THE SAME SOURCE GAVE INFORMATION ON DIAZ' PLAN TO…
  • p. 31 …ON 15 FEBRUARY DIAZ SAID THAT HE HAD JUST RETURNED TO MIAMI FROM THE FLORIDA KEYS…
  • p. 33 …9 MARCH 1966 SUBJECT PLANS OF HERMINIO DIAZ GARCIA TO ASSASSINATE FIDEL CASTRO RUZ PLACE & DATE…
  • p. 35 …WAVE INTEL UFG 8011 (CABLE) AMRAZZ/1 REPORTED PLANS OF HERMINIO DIAZ GARCIA TO ASSASSINATE FIDEL…
  • p. 37 …SE C R E T CFN 9532 8 1966 8011 AMRAZZ/1 HERMINIO DIAZ GARCIA FIDEL…
  • p. 39 …PERTINENT INFORMATION DIAZ, HERMINIO 201-203046 201-203040 SEX M DOB ? 100-009-014 DBB -24744…
  • p. 40 …RID INDEX DIAZ, MIRANDA. FILED 062322Z REPORT CLASS SECRET CONTROLLED DISSEM NO FOREIGN DISSEM WH/C…
  • p. 42 …ON 4 JANUARY 1966 A HUBAN EMIGRE IN MIAMI SAID THAT HERMINIO DIAZ GARCIA, A MEMBER…
  • p. 43 …IT IS BELIEVED THAT DIAZ IS RECEIVING ASSISTANCE FROM JOSE MARIA "PEPIN" BOSCH LAMARQUE, OF THE…
  • p. 46 …PERTINENT INFORMATION Sandra Diaz, Hermino 201-203040 SEX M DOB ? CIT CUBA OCC ? Δ USA, FLA…
  • p. 47 …BORGES PAID DIAZ $360 FOR GRENADES. DIAZ DELIVERED FORTY CONSEQUENTLY BORGES ASKED A-15
  • p. 48 IN 18432 PAGE 2 DIAZ PICK UP OTHER TWENTY OR $120 CASH THEY REPRESENT. IF A…
  • p. 50 A15 9MM $120 20 65 A-15 US MK II HERMINIO DIAZ 732 NW THIRD ST…
  • p. 53 (Sandra Lis) Herninio Díaz García 127 74W 13th Ave. Aug 3 Miami (Tel. 371-6825) Deliverer…
  • p. 54 …ROS BELIEVES DIAZ WILL RETURN U.S. MIDDLE FEB 64. 2. DURING DIAZ SOJOURN WAVE AREA…
  • p. 55 G G G L E T ATTACHMENT 17 to UPGA-13685 Merminio DIAZ (201-203040) Subject…
  • p. 58 …HOWEVER, ONE SOURCE, SANDELIO HERMINIO (DIAZ) GARCIA, PERHAPS KNOWN TO AMWHIP, REPORTED IN JULY 1963 IN…
  • p. 65 Idou A Sancalilo Herminio DIAZ Carota DP05: 3 September 1983 Aguacate, Habana Province Idea 8 Efigonio…
  • p. 67 …RID/FI FILE TITLE Diaz Garner, Sandie Franklin TRACE REQUEST ABSTRACT FILE NUMBER (PRIMARY CODE) 201…
  • p. 68 …Report on JMWAVE Contacts with Sandalio Herminio DIAZ Garcia ACTION REQUIRED: None. For your information and…
  • p. 69 …Sandalio Herminio *DIAZ Garcia (201-203040) ## Background: 1. Subject arrived in the United States on the…
  • p. 71 …Sandalio Herminio DIAz Garcia (201-203040) ## Basic Biographic Information: 1. Subject was born on 3 September…
  • p. 72 …Subject said ANDERSON knew him as Herminio DIAZ. 6. In 1956 Subject took asylum in the…
  • p. 77 …PERTINENT INFORMATION DIAZ, HERMINIO 201-203040 SEX M DOB ? CIT ? OCC ? KAPOK 201-203040 UFGA-12173…
  • p. 83 64684 Iden A Sandalio Herminio DIAZ Garcia DPOB: 3 September 1923 Aguacate, Habana Province Iden B…
  • p. 84 …TO RI FILE NO. PERTINENT INFORMATION 14. DIAZ GARCIA, SANDALIO HERMINIO 201-203040 SEX M DOB…
  • p. 88 …NAME (First) (Middle) (Last) (Nee) Herminio DIAZ 2. NAME IN NATIVE LANGUAGE OR SCRIPT Same as…
  • p. 91 …FULL NAME Herminio DIAZ Fernandez 2. YEAR OF BIRTH 1900 3. PLACE OF BIRTH Jaruce, Havana…
  • p. 92 FULL NAME SEX YEAR OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH NATIONALITY AT BIRTH* M F Ruben DIAZ…
  • p. 97 …DIAZ Garcia 1928(?) Buenos, Cuba Cuban Donaldo DIAZ Garcia 1935(?) Habana, Cuba Cuban Angelica DIAZ Garcia…
  • p. 102 …Dubon DIAZ Garcia (brother) - Urban Reform, Havana, Cuba. Donaldo DIAZ Garcia (brother) - Ministry of Health, Chief…
  • p. 107 FULL NAME SEX YEAR OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH NATIONALITY AT BIRTH* M F Ruben DIAZ…
  • p. 108 …AND SUBJ'S ALLEGED ACQUAINTANCE WITH RAUL (DIAZ) ARGUELLES, EX-DTI CHIEF, AND SAMUEL (RODILES) PLANAS…
  • p. 109 …JUAN (ALMEIDA) BOSQUE, SAMUEL (RODILES) PLANAS, RENE (RODRIGUEZ) DE LOS SANTOS, ROLANDO (CUBELAS) SECADES, RAUL (DIAZ…
  • p. 111 …REQUEST TRACES SANDALIO HERMINIO (DIAZ) GARCIA (A 13 319 255), DPOB 3 SEP 23, AGUACATE, HAVA…
  • p. 115 …REQUEST TRACES SANDALIO HERMINIO (DIAZ) GARCIA (A 13 319 255), DPOB: 3 SEP 23, AGUACATE, HAVA…
  • p. 119 …Chiefs of Stations, Havana, San Jose, Guatemala, Caracas, and Bogota SUBJECT { GENERAL Operational SPECIFIC Herminio DIAZ…
  • p. 121 and some letters which DIAZ was carrying. Source: HYROTHESIS (B) (second sentence para 2) (B) Appraisal…
  • p. 122 …Chiefs of Stations, Havana San Jose, Guatemala, Caracas and Bogota Herminio DIAZ Garcia Juan Manuel DELGADO…
  • p. 125 …Letter to Sandelio Herminio DIAZ García EVALUATION: 9/9 - Documentary 1. A letter was sent from…
  • p. 129 Jamalalie Herrenme DIAZ Garcia aka Herrenme DIAZ Garcia Efigenio AMEITEIRAS Delgado Rank ROS Gonzalez Jesús GONZALÉZ…

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he may have been apprehended for questioning during that time. He denied any actual confinement other than immediately after the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961. This point was specifically brought out in his interrogation and subsequent LCFLUTTER examination in view of the statements made by Raul ROS Gonzalez (see paragraph 3.B. of WAVE-4580, 17 September 1963) to AMOT-133. Subject, although he may have made this statement in a moment of boastfulness, denied it and said ROS probably misunderstood him.

## Travel Outside Cuba:

12. In 1948 Subject went to Mexico City allegedly to attend the Polytechnic Institute. During the short time he was there he was one of the participants in the successful assassination of the 2nd Chief of the Cuban Secret Police, Rogelio "Cucu" HERNANDEZ Vega, that took place in the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.

13. In 1949 and 1950 Subject was in the United States as a tourist (exact dates unknown). He said he lived in a furnished room at 145 West 84th Street, New York City, during that period and visited with his friends Carlos*ROLOFF and Mario*LEON. Both were employees of the Cuban Consulate in New York City at the time.

14. In 1956, after spending three months as an asylee in the Costa Rican Embassy in Havana, Subject was exiled to Costa Rica. His companions in asylum and exile were Efigenio AMEIJEIRAS Delgado, Leonel*GOMEZ Perez, Alberto*GRANA, and Rolando*CABEZAS. Soon after his arrival in Costa Rica Subject became involved in a plot to kidnap Costa Rican President Jose FIGUERES (see paragraph 6 above for details).

15. After a six-month prison term in Costa Rica, 1956 to 1957. Subject went to Panama and travelled extensively to other Central and South American countries as a procurer of arms and ammunition in the name of the 26th of July Movement and the Cuban Revolution. He returned to Cuba in early January 1959. (See paragraph 7 above.)

## Relationship with Efigenio AMEIJEIRAS Delgado, et al.

16. As reported in WAVE-5393, 4 October 1963, and confirmed in the second LCFLUTTER, 19 October 1963, Subject stated that Efigenio AMEIJEIRAS Delgado is in fact the leader of an anti-Communist element that consists principally of a group of Cuban Army majors. Subject's description of a specific plot by AMEIJEIRAS and his followers to assassinate AMTHUG/1 and establish an anti-Communist government was somewhat watered down by Subject in the interview immediately preceding the first LCFLUTTER examination on 10 October 1963 (see WAVE-5723, dated 11 October 1963).

17. The fact that Subject admitted having no first-hand knowledge of AMEIJEIRAS' actual plans for AMTHUG/1's assassination and the establishment of an anti-Communist government, the possibility that such a plan does exist proved to be only speculation on the part of Subject. He based his conclusions, which he initially related to his interrogator as positive plans (see WAVE-5393 dated 4 October 1963), on AMEIJEIRAS' activities which Subject surmised could only mean AMTHUG/1's demise and the subsequent establishment of an anti-Communist government that would not only exclude the existing Communist principals but also any BATISTA elements. The exclusion of the Communist principals, Subject added, actually meant their physical elimination or, in fact, their execution.

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