BOLIVIANS SUBMIT EVIDENCE THAT GUEVARA LEADS REBELS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP69B00369R000200270016-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2003
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: September 23, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Bolivians Submit Evid
enee
That Guevara Leads Rebels
B
y J. Y. Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Bolivia claimed yesterday
that Ernesto "Che" Guevara,
the former right-hand man
of Fidel Castro who mysteri-
ously disappeared in o r e
than two years ago, has
been leading Cuban-inspired
guerrillas within its borders.
To back the claim, Boliv-
ian Foreign Minister Walter
Guevara Arze showed a
score of pictures that he
said depicted Guevara in the
Bolivian jungles.
The Minister spoke to a
meeting of the foreign min-
isters of the Organization of
American States called to
consider a charge by Vene-
zuela that Cuba had landed
guerrillas and terrorists on
TWO Associated Press
VIEWS-Ernesto Guevara in Uruguay in 1961 and,
at right, as identified in Bolivian government photo.
its shores. one of a half a dozen Latin
Since "Che" Guevara dis- American countries.
appeared from public view Mindful of these reports,
In March, 1965, there have U.S. officials said they were'
been numerous reports that nonetheless impressed by
he was dead or preparing the case uu4a by the Boli-
guerrilla uprisings in any vians. Secret .y of State
Dean Rusk was among those
who heard it made.
The case included an anal-
ysis of the guerrilla leader's
facial structure based on
photographs taken of him
See OAS, A4, Col. 1
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