September 5, 2007
A FORMER CIA operative and Cuban exile plans to auction a lock of Che
Guevara's hair, snipped before the revolutionary was buried in 1967.
Gustavo Villoldo, 71, was involved in Guevara's capture in the jungles
of Bolivia, according to unclassified US records and other documents. He
plans to auction the strands of 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 Mr Villoldo, also a veteran of the ill-fated Bay of Pigs
invasion of Cuba.
Heritage Auction Galleries of Dallas will hold the auction on October 25-26.
The scrapbook also includes the map Villoldo used to track down Guevara
in Bolivia, photographs of Guevara's body, messages intercepted between
Guevara and his rebels and a set of Guevara's fingerprints taken before
his burial.
The Cuban government announced in 1995 that its anthropologists had
uncovered Guevara's remains from Bolivia, and re-interred them in Cuba
without doing any DNA testing.
Villoldo and other exiles and experts say the body of one of Fidel
Castro's closest friends is still in Bolivia.
AP
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