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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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SECRET 012040Z AUG 73 STAFF CITE GUAYAQUIL 17852 UFA HRS TO: WH/MIAMI, SAN JOSE INFO DIRECTGD, QUITO, GUATEMALA, MEXICO 872 CITY. MHABYSS PJBREEZY 1. FOLLOWING INFO NOT PASSABLE DEA FOR TIME BEING: PJBREEZY=1 SENSITIVE UNILATERAL PENETRATION LOCAL DRUG MILIEU REPORTED 1 AUGUST THAT GUAYAQUIL DRUG TRAFFICKER ALFREDO ORDONEZ GONZALEZ RETURNED GUAYAQUIL 28 JULY AFTER TRAVELLING THRU MEXICO (CULIACAN), GUATEMALA AND SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA. WHILE SAN JOSE, ORDONEZ MET WITH DRUG TRAFFICKERS EVELIO D U Q U E AND MERMINIO OR ERMENEGILDO D I A Z. PJBREEZY=1 PROVIDED FOLLOWING A. NAME: EVELIO DUQUE (2011-1302008) IP/EDI TRAVEL PROGRAM ABSTRACT INDEX IP/FIS PREPARE FOR FILMING IP/FIL FILM ISO/FIL CODE IDL(2,3,4) PROCEDURE CODE CODE IDL(11) HCD(0) IP/FILES FOR FILMING REMARKS: SERVED IN CUBAN REBEL ARMY BUT LEFT IN 1960 HRU INTERVENTION ITALIAN EMBASSY. B. NAME: HERMINIO OR ERMENGILDO DIAZ (20-02-03-30) (MEC WITH GUAYAQUIL DPOB: SPAIN; CIRCA 1923 D-24-120-25 200-11-11/3 101-0302018 3 Approved for Release: 2025/06/11 C07177588
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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.