WRITER DESCRIBES HOW CHE GUEVARA WAS KILLED

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
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• Publication Date: December 28, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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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-
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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-
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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
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