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Ex-CIA agent: I buried Che
24/03/2007 10:08 - (SA)
Miami - A former CIA agent claimed he personally buried leftist revolutionary icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara, and challenged Cuba to allow a DNA test to prove that the remains he interred were Guevara's, The Miami Herald reported on Friday.
Miami Cuban emigre Gustavo Villoldo, 71, a veteran of the failed United States-backed Bay of Pigs invasion, said he buried Guevara and two colleagues in a pit in Vallegrande, Bolivia, in October 1967, after cutting a lock of the hair of the Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary hero.
The communist Cuban government announced in 1995 that it had located Che's remains and returned them to Cuba in 1997 for a pomp- and parade-filled extravaganza, ending in their interment at a mausoleum in Cuba honouring Guevara.
"In the hair, I'm sure there is a sample of Che's DNA, and I'm willing to have it tested and compared against the remains in his tomb in Cuba," Villoldo told the newspaper.
While co-operation from Cuba's government or Guevara's relatives seemed unlikely, his claim stirred new debate over the final fate of one of the Cuban Revolution's most recognisable "ambassadors".
Villoldo said he had the exact co-ordinates of the grave, and would only give them to the Guevara family if they requested them, the report said.
- SAPA
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