GUEVARA'S BODY HANDED OVER TO THE CIA?
In a front-page story October 23, the Buenos Aires newspaper Primera Plana reported that the claim of the Bolivian authorities that the body of Che Guevara was cremated is false.
The truth is, according to Primera Plana, that the embalmed body was sent to the U.S. military base in the Panama Canal Zone.
The information was sent to the Argentine journal from Bolivia by one of its special correspondents.
A similar story had already been reported by Marcha in its October 20 issue. The Montevideo weekly published an article by Rogelio Garcia Lupo which explored the discrepancy between the care with which the body was embalmed on the day Guevara was killed and the story on the following day that it had been "cremated."
"A rare custom," observed the au-
thor caustically, "of first embalming the
body and then immediately converting it
into ashes."
Garcia called special attention to
the eyewitness accounts of the American
military man who appeared to be in charge
of bringing Guevara's body to Vallegrande
and having it embalmed. This mysterious
"adviser," who spoke English with an
American accent, vanished about the same
time as the body.
Garcia states categorically: "Gen-
eral Ovando lied when he stated that the
body of 'Che' was cremated...The body of
Ernesto Guevara was sent secretly to a
CIA base in United States territory where
the arrival of bodies from Vietnam is
such a routine matter that it would not
be noticed in the civilian or military
airports."
TROTSKY