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201-203040 Diaz-Garcia, Sandelio Herminio

Central Intelligence Agency · 1975-08-11 · 163 pages · text by OCR, confidence 97%

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Approved for Release: 2025/06/11 C07177588 FORM 3007 1-66 IN 27734 TDCSDB-315/01542-66 PAGE 3 OF 4 PAGES --- CONFIDENTIAL — NO FOREIGN DISSEM / CONTROLLED DISSEM *(classification)* *(dissem controls)* WHICH PARTICIPATED IN THE OPERATION HAS NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED. THIS BOAT WAS NOT ENGAGED IN THE FIRE FIGHT WITH THE CUBAN FORCES. IT HAS RETURNED TO MIAMI. 4. ANTONIO CUESTA DEL VALLE AND EUGENIO SALDIVAR WERE THE MEN WHO WERE WOUNDED AND PICKED UP BY CUBAN NAVAL FORCES. ARMANDO ROMERO AND HERMINIO DIAZ GARCIA WERE THE MEN WHO WERE KILLED ON THE SHORE. ROBERTO ANTA FERNANDEZ AND GUILLERMO ALVAREZ WERE THE MEN WHO WERE BELIEVED KILLED IN THE EXPLOSION OF THE BOAT. 5. THE ONLY OCCUPANT OF THE OTHER BOAT ENGAGED IN THE OPERATION WAS ONE "LAUREANO". (FIELD COMMENT: LAUREANO MAY BE LAUREANO BORGES LAZO, BORN 6 FEBRUARY 1931 IN LOS ARABOS, MATANZAS PROVINCE, CUBA. BORGES IS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE PERSONS MENTIONED IN PARAGRAPH 4 IN THE ACTIVITIES OF COMANDOS L.) 6. DIAZ AND ROMER WERE INFILTRATING INTO CUBA IN ORDER TO TRY TO ASSASSINATE CUBAN PREMIER FIDEL CASTRO. (FIELD COMMENT: SEVERAL RECENT REPORTS HAVE MENTIONED DIAZ' INTENTION OF ATTEMPTING TO ASSASSINATE CASTRO. TDCSDB 315-00059-66 AND TDCSDB 315-00206-66 REFER TO THE --- CONFIDENTIAL — NO FOREIGN DISSEM / CONTROLLED DISSEM 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 (mean confidence 97%); expect the odd misread word. 163 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.