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Title

Che Guevara and the FBI : the US political police dossier on the Latin American revolutionary / edited by Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith.

Publication

Melbourne, Vic. ; New York : Ocean Press, c1997.

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Additional Authors

• Ratner, Michael, 1943-
• Smith, Michael Steven, 1942-

Description

xx, 213 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Published for the first time are the U.S. secret police files on the legendary revolutionary Ernesto Guevara, showing how the FBI and CIA monitored his movements and activity in the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Africa and Latin America. A Freedom of Information Act request succeeded in obtaining the FBI file on Guevara, containing a wide selection of CIA and other secret documents. With an introduction by the editors, U.S. attorneys Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith, this book poses the obvious question: why did the FBI have such a dossier? 'Che is fairly intellectual for a Latino,' reads a 1958 CIA document on Guevara during the period of the guerilla war in Cuba. Watched closely after the 1959 revolution, Guevara's every public word was recorded and transmitted to the FBI and CIA, with particular note taken of his anti-U.S. statements. Later documents concern Guevera's disappearance from Cuba in 1965 and his resurfacing in Africa and Bolivia as a guerilla leader. The sensational materials included in these secret files add to suspicions that U.S. spy agencies were plotting to assassinate Guevara when he was a Cuban government leader in the early 1960s and suggest that they were involved in the pursuit and murder of Guevara in Bolivia in 1967." "For all those interested in Che Guevara, Washington's relationship with Latin America and the workings of the U.S. spy agencies, this book is a significant new contribution."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Guevara, Che, 1928-1967 > Archives
• United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation > Archives
• 1948-1990
• Revolutionaries > Cuba
• Guerrillas > Latin America > Biography
• Cuba > Politics and government > 1959-

Genre/Form

• History
• Archives
• Sources
• Archives.
• Sources.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ernesto Che Guevara -- Chronology: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution -- Che: The Heroic Guerrilla: A personal note / Michael Ratner -- Introduction: Che Guevara and the FBI / Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith -- Deciphering the Documents: A note / Philip Agee -- Ch. 1. 1952-1958: Argentina, Mexico and the Sierra Maestra -- Ch. 2. 1959-1961: The First Years of the Revolution -- Ch. 3. 1961: Richard Goodwin's Memos to President John F. Kennedy -- Ch. 4. 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis -- Ch. 5. 1963-1964: Solidarity with the Third World -- Ch. 6. 1965: Che's Farewell -- Ch. 7. 1965-66: Rumors of Che's Activities and Death -- Ch. 8. 1967-1968: Che in Bolivia: His Disappearance, Reappearance and Murder -- Ch. 9. 1968: Richard Goodwin Briefs the New York Times.

ISBN

1875284761

OCLC

37900647

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library