Che Guevara's Hair Auctioned Off

Submitted by Doug on 30 October, 2007 - 23:39.

Scrapbook of memorabilia kept by CIA operative who buried Che renews attention to Guevara's execution, U.S. Role.

"The macabre collection of memorabilia purchased yesterday by a lone bidder was compiled by a Cuban exile CIA operative named Gustavo Villoldo, who was tasked to help capture Guevara and, after his execution by the Bolivian military, secretly bury him in the middle of the night. Before Guevara's hands were cut off, Villoldo helped fingerprint his corpse, and a "death mask"--a plaster cast of his face--was made as proof that the real Che had been captured and killed. The covert operative also clipped a portion of Che's beard as a memento of the CIA's triumph over Latin America's most famous revolutionary"

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB232/index.htm

only $100,000 what a deal, pays for about .6 of the annual salary paid to a Blackwater "contractor".

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Just as bad

Submitted by nicalink on 31 October, 2007 - 02:37.

Before Guevara's hands were cut off, Villoldo helped fingerprint his corpse, and a "death mask"

Don't you think he cut many too? Don't be naive!

Just as bad as what the Somozistas and Sandinistas did back in the late 70's and early 80's.

How about Pedron? Pedro Altamirano back in the real Sandino days? Corta de Chaleco? Now that was justice!

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Hair = DNA

Submitted by mjt on 31 October, 2007 - 00:10.

While the hair "sample" may have seemed trivial at the time, there has since been much debate if the man they buried, and hence returned to Cuba, is really Che. Hair provides the DNA link, though it is hard to believe a lone bidder of $100k was thinking of this. It was only partly a CIA triumph; there was no shortage of Cubans who wanted Che dead, and no great surprise they made up the bulk of the people sent or volunteered to go to Bolivia.

The other CIA operative listed in the article, Felix Rodriquez, still wears the Rolex he took off of Che (he likes to mention that every time people mention how ascetic and selfless Che was; he also likes to point out that the man, Che, who gave his men orders to fight to the death and the last bullet, ran towards his Bolivian captors with a gun and fully loaded clip, begging for his life claiming, "Don't shoot! I'm Che; I'm worth more to you alive than dead!").

It's about time

Submitted by nicalink on 31 October, 2007 - 02:51.

It's about time. Everyone idolizes Che. I love the real point of view. How many did he kill anyways?

Nicas and Latin Americans overall love him here in the US.

They believe Che stands for freedom. I lived in Nicaragua's Communism for a bit. That ain't freedom.

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