CIA hand to auction off Che Guavera's hair, etc.

[upi402]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120AP_ODD_Ches_Remains.html?source=mypi

Lock of Che Guevara's hair to be sold
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MIAMI -- A former CIA operative and Cuban exile plans to auction what he says is a lock of Che Guevara's hair, snipped before the Argentinian revolutionary and friend of Fidel Castro was buried in 1967.

Gustavo Villoldo, 71, was involved in Guevara's capture in the jungles of Bolivia, according to unclassified U.S. records and other documents. He plans to auction the hair and other items kept in a scrapbook since the joint CIA-Bolivian army mission 40 years ago.

"It's time for me to put the past behind and pass these on to someone else," said Villoldo, also a veteran of the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

The scrapbook also holds a map used to track down Guevara in Bolivia, photos of Guevara's body, intercepted messages between Guevara and his rebels and a set of Guevara's fingerprints taken before his burial.

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(I can afford the tee shirts but I bet this set is over of my buget)

[peacetalksforall]

1. Tasteless. Even worse - set up a CIA-Cuban-American museum

to hold the stuff. A museum to perpetuate the hate for all time.

Also, with a special portrait of Luis Posada Carilles. (Or self-portrait).

With all due sarcasm.

[Fridays Child]

2. This is disgusting.

My sympathy to his family, and I hope they can get the auction stopped.