Posted on 09/03/2007 2:14:19 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Lock of Che Guevara's hair to be sold
Mon Sep 3, 12:51 PM ET
MIAMI - A former CIA operative and Cuban exile plans to auction what he says is a lock of Che Guevara's hair, snipped before the Argentinian revolutionary and friend of Fidel Castro was buried in 1967.
Gustavo Villoldo, 71, was involved in Guevara's capture in the jungles of Bolivia, according to unclassified U.S. records and other documents. He plans to auction the 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 Villoldo, also a veteran of the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
The scrapbook also holds a map used to track down Guevara in Bolivia, photos of Guevara's body, intercepted messages between Guevara and his rebels and a set of Guevara's fingerprints taken before his burial.
It's hard to predict how much the collection will net at auction because there is nothing comparable on the market, said Tom Slater, director of the Americana department at Heritage Auctions of Dallas, which will put the collection on the block Oct. 25-26.
"We cannot recall ever having seen artifacts relating to Che's dramatic career and death appearing on the auction market, and we expect this offering to excite broad bidder interest," Slater said.
The Cuban government announced in 1995 that its anthropologists had uncovered Guevara's remains from Bolivia, and re-interred them in Cuba without doing DNA testing. Villoldo and other exiles and experts say the body is still in Bolivia.
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Just for a lark, I sort of wish that I had the $$$ to bid on this and buy this ratty commie locket of lice infested hair.
Just think...then maybe, I could "clone" Che from the ratty hair locket. The new "Che clone" could then be put before another firing squad.
Sure...this wishful thinking has lots of moral and ethical dilemmas (and in reality is impossible and I would have too many reservations to actually carry it out) but it is fun to think about.
Che’s scrotum would be much more valuable....
Yuck, who would want that unless they wanted to compare his DNA to something?
I’m really disappointed that none of those women is firing an automatic weapon.
Free Enterprise Rules!!
Chris Matthews’ kids would pay top dollar for it... he says they all wear Che t-shirts
Wow!
I would love to see that quote from Matthews...
Yuck...no thanks!!!
It is now generally accepted that Castro, fearing both a possible long term competitor, or a troublesome figure in other regards, sent Guevara on what he knew was an ill-fated mission in Bolivia to meet his death. Modern History, ain’t it somethin’ when you really look at it????
Did you hear Mark Levin interviewing Humberto Fontova recently??
SHOOT HIM AGAIN! HE’S STILL MOVIN’!
I’m really disappointed that the last one, with the olive drab T-shirt, isn’t my girlfriend......
I’m really disappointed that the last one, with the olive drab T-shirt, isn’t my girlfriend......
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