WRITER DESCRIBES HOW CHE GUEVARA WAS KILLED

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CREST [1]

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General CIA Records [2]

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000300320001-6

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RIPPUB

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November 11, 2016

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October 5, 1998

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December 28, 1967

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. -WASH1N(; TUiV Sanitized - Approved For Relea iKO1As6%$75-00149R00030.0320001-6 Y DEO 2 8 1967 CF' Q C'A Man Was Allegedly Present YRGHT v r' .1 ril~il PARTS, Dec. 28 (UPI) - A U. S. CIA man was present Oct. 9 when Ernesto "Che" Guevara was executed in the schoolhouse of a small Bolivian mountain village, according to Paris Match. Michele Ray, a French repor- ter captured by the Viet Cong in Vietnam earlier this year. wrote "flow Che Was Killed" in the weekly newsmagazine. Miss Ray recently spent six weeks in Bolivia and said she talked with witnesses to the exe- cution. She said Guevara sat en the dirt floor of the school with his wrists bound. Fidel Castro'sifor- FOIAb3b Miss Ray said that one of thoe illustrated. with pictures of Gue- ho ran eagerly to fire into vara's bullet-riddled body and uevara's body was Fernando his companions and the Bolivian co, a male nurse who had tended a wound in Che's leg army men who took part in his night befom capture- I The Paris Match article 5 CPYRGHT ,R~,EsTo Cxu~E ~ AdzA ~CrA ~ mer lieutenznt spat in the face of Bolivian Rear Adm. Hugar- teche with the Admiral tried to question him, she said. The story said Gen. Ovando and Lafuente and a CIA agent identified only as Gonzales flew to the mountain village of Hig- ucra near where GGevara was captured with remnants of his guerilla band Oct. 8. Miss Ray said Sgt. Mario Ter- an of the Bolivian army shot Guevara with a burst from his M2 rifle and a Lt. Perez deliv- ered the coup' de grace to the back of Che's head. Once Gue- vara was dead, she said, several others. pumped bullets into' his Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R000300320001-6